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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

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Isolation must precede true society.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

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Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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