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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

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A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

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No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

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When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

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One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

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Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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