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In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

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There is one mind common to all individual men

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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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