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The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

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I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

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You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

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

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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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