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The virtue of books is to be readable.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

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It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

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Cunning is strength withheld.

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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