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Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

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The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

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Live in the sunshine.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

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No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

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You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

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We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

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