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Topic |
| Nature | Earth laughs in flowers. |
| Nature | Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor, but they grope ever upward towards consciousness, the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. |
| Necessity | By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. |
| Necessity | Make yourself necessary to somebody. |
| Necessity | We do what we must, and call it by the best names. |
| Obedience | Obedience alone gives the right to command. |
| Obstacles | As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. |
| Occupation | The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. |
| Opinion | People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. |
| Opinion | It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. |
| Opportunity | Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. |
| Optimism | So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. |
| Oratory | There is no true orator who is not a hero. |
| Oratory | Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. |
| Order | For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune, Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon. |
| Painting | Pictures must not be too picturesque. |
| Paradise | Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. |
| Paradise | Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. |
| Passion | Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. |
| Patience | Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. |
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