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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

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The house praises the carpenter.

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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

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The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

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Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

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The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

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If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

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