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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Souls are not saved in bundles.
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.
Every noble activity makes room for itself.
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
