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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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