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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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The world is governed by opinion.

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The great hope of society is in individual character.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 7th, 1780

Died: October 2nd, 1842

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