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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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Wisdom is infused into every form.

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

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Skepticism is slow suicide.

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

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Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.

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The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.

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Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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