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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

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Be a gift and a benediction.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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A man in debt is so far a slave.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

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