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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

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All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

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The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

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Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

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Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

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