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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

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Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

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A man should carry nature in his head.

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

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It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

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