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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

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The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

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The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

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There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

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Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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