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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

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The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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

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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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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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