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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

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The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

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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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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

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