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“There too I admired, though I did not gather…”

“We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them”

“The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends”

“Sometimes I bolted suddenly, and nobody could tell my whereabouts, for I did not stand much about gracefulness, and never hesitated at a gap in a fence”

“How fast and profound is the influence of the subtile powers of heaven and earth”

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor”

“For I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it”