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Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.

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We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.

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The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

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You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

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Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

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