Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor but they grope ever upward towards consciousness the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
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So ... I feel in regard to this aged England ... pressed upon by transitions of trade and ... competing populations, I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days beforeindeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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Don't waste life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
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