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It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

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To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

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Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

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The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

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A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

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What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

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The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

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