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Essays: First Series (1841)
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.
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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.
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Is it any better if the student... aims to make a mechanical whole of.,.science... by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
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No anchor, no cable, no fences, avail to keep a fact a fact.
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What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
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Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.
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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
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The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...
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Show us an arc of the curve, and a good mathematician will find out the whole figure. We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen.
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Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works and delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters.
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If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
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Nothing astonished men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough today to do right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative.
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In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt it, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
April 27, 1882
(aged 78)
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