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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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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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Who loses a day loses life.

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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The force of character is cumulative.

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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

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The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

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Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.

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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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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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I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

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The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

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The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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