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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

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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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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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Today is a king in disguise.

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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

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It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

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The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

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Ability without honor has no value.

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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

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