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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

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We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

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The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

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The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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A day is a miniature eternity.

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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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We are wiser than we know.

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A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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