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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Me Metaphysics More Satisfies
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action Control Direct Feeling
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed

Beautiful Flowers Garden Give
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Affect Anything AnythingElse Attitude
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Flesh Great Poem Shall
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Belief creates the actual fact.
Actual Belief Creates Fact
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Enough Learned Like Those
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Again Age Character Like
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Act Advantage Better Character
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Dismiss Insults Soul Which
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Audiences Great Must Poets
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Accommodate Business Cannot Convenience
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Cause Failure Faith His
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

AiBest Earth Eat Grow
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Case Else Faith Greatest
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Satisfies Soul Truth Whatever
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Eternal Hanging Nothing Task
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Actually Catch Character Darker
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Come Force Idea Individual
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Day Each EachDay Everybody
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Door God Grace Subliminal
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance Any Consequences First
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Said Several Thousand Universe
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius

About Expressive Freshness Illiterate
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Advance Behind Fools Go
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Great City Greatest Men
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Greatest Hut Man Still
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Any Die Different Luckier
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Produce Men Great
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

AlsoBattles Day Fall Gain
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Artist Bad BadManners Humanity
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Funeral His Own Sympathy
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Bones Fat Find Sticks
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Book
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Celebrate Myself Sing
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Death Nothing Happen
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Essentially Greatest Poem
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Another Done Last Returns
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Beautiful Happen More
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Anything Education Had Men
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Ability Attitude Important Success
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Shaft Archer
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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