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¶ No services are of any value, but only likeness. When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

¶ There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies. Nature can not be surprised in undress. Beauty runs everywhere.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls.

No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature had taken to heart.

¶ Let the victory fall where it will, we are on that side.

¶ Nature is loved by what is best in us.

¶ No man can write anything, who does not think that what he writes is for the time the history of the world; or do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.

¶ Manhood first, and then gentleness.

¶ We are escorted on every hand through life by spiritual agents, and a beneficent purpose lies in wait for us ☛☛

¶ Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends. no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.

We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life were not also natural.

¶ Let us be men instead of woodchucks, and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us, though we sit in chairs of ivory on carpets of silk.

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HE wise man is the State. He needs no army, fort or navy-he loves men too well; no bribe, or feast or palace, to draw friends to him; no vantage-ground, no favorable circumstance. He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is a prophet; no statute-book, for he has the lawgiver; no money, for he has value; no road, for he is at home where he is; no experience, for the life of the Creator shoots through him, and looks from his eyes.

¶ Things have their laws, as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with.

¶ By fault of our dullness and selfishness, we are looking up to Nature; but when we are convalescent, Nature will look up to us.

¶ The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix, as persons are organs of moral or supernatural force.

¶ We are encamped in Nature, not domesticated.

¶ Our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul. But there are no such men as we fable; no Jesus, nor Pericles, nor Cæsar, nor Angelo, nor Washington, such as we have made.

¶ Each man is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.

What is strange, too-there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.

¶ The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

¶ Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

I verily believe if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread, or take liberties with private letters, or do some precious atrocity.

¶ We consecrate a great deal of nonsense, because it was allowed by great men. There is none without his foible.

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HIS is the history of government-one man does something which is to bind another. A man who can not be acquainted with me taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end, not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence. Of all debts, men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money's worth, except for these This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world.

¶ There is no end to the consequences of the act.

We know nothing rightly, for want of perspective

¶ Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

¶Nature seems to exist for the excellent.

Any laws but those which men make for themselves are laughable.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.

The less government we have, the better the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

¶ Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.

RE there not women who fill our vase with wine and

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roses to the brim, so that the wine runs over and fills the house with perfume; who inspire us with courtesy; who unloose our tongues, and we speak; who anoint our eyes, and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished, and left us at large; we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers s Steep us, we cried, in these influences, for days, for weeks, and we shall be sunny poets, and will write out in many-colored words the romance that you are.

¶ He is a rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, of men in distant countries and in past time.

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F the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people can not speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared

THERE will always be a government of force, where

men are selfish; and when they are pure enough to abjure the code of force, they will be wise enough to see how these public ends of the post-office, of the highway, of commerce, and the exchange of property, of museums and libraries, of institutions of art and science, can be answered

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