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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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New arts destroy the old.

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Conversation is a game of circles.

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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

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Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

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