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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

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Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

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What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

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You cannot see the mountain near.

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Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

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Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

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Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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Wisdom is infused into every form.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

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The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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