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

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

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