• Feelings

  Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

  4.4 · 43 votes · 102 reads

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• Virtues

  I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

  3.7 · 19 votes · 165 reads

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• Feelings

  In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

  4.5 · 13 votes · 99 reads

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• Society

  Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

  3.6 · 54 votes · 6 reads

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• Nature

  Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

  3.7 · 24 votes · 193 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, -for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

  3.7 · 13 votes · 60 reads

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• Nature

  Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

  3.5 · 42 votes · 46 reads

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• Defects

  The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

  3.0 · 7 votes · 180 reads

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• Various

  There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

  3.0 · 5 votes · 200 reads

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• Society

  Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

  4.3 · 40 votes · 112 reads

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• Nature

  We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

  4.2 · 7 votes · 78 reads

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• Government and Politics

  When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast sl

  3.2 · 9 votes · 63 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

  4.9 · 20 votes · 174 reads

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