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

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The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

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Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

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Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

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If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

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Where there is no vision a people perish.

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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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