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Knowledge is the only elegance.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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Every man is a new method.

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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

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Some will always be above others.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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You are constantly invited to be what you are.

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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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