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The only reward of virtue is virtue.

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A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

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Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

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The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

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The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

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I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

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