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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

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A man in debt is so far a slave.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

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The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

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Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

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Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.

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A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

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If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

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