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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

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Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

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Tart, cathartic virtue.

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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.

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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

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We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

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