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Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

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Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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Immitation is suicide.

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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

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Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

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My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

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If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

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