A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Life   
Mind   
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Character   
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
Subject:
Arrogance   
Human Nature   
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Etiquette   
Work: Essays, First Series
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Subject:
Life   
Business   
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Subject:
Freedom   
Thinking   
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Life   
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Subject:
Character   
Money   
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Subject:
Genius   
Philosophical   
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Subject:
Beauty   
Flower   
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Subject:
Luck   
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Subject:
Poetry   
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Subject:
Freedom   
Desires   
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New York is a sucked orange.
Subject:
America   
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Subject:
Truth   
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character.
Subject:
Character   
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In the vaunted works of art, the master-stroke is nature's part.
Subject:
Nature   
Art   
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Subject:
Character   
Beauty   
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Subject:
Politics   
Politicians   
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Action   
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