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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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The dearest events are summer-rain.

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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

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Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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Truth is the summit of being.

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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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