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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

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If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

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God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

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We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

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