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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

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Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

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In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

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And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

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The only prudence in life is concentration.

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In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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Love, and you shall be loved.

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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

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