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For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

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

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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

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...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

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The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

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In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

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