To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen librarya company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.
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