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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
[ Charity ]
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
[ Society ]
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
[ Taxes ]
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
[ Solitude ]
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.
[ Solitude ]
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
[ Solitude ]
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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
[ Solitude ]
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
[ Doubt ]
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
[ Integrity ]
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
[ Fashion ]
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
[ Respectability ]
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
[ Christianity ]
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
[ Common Sense ]
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Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
[ Speech ]
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