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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

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William Ellery Channing

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

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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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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

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Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

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