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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

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We must be our own before we can be another's.

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The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

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It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

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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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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

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