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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

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Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

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Rage is essentially vulgar.

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I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

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