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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Nature hates calculators.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Children are all foreigners.

Revolutions go not backward.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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