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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

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Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

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For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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Women see through Claude Lorraines.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

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