We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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Speech is power speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are books ... which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis mans perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'
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Why should'st thou stoop to poor excuse?
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