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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

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When half-gods go The gods arrive.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

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Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

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Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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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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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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