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Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

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Humility is the secret of the wise.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

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Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

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"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

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Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

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Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

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Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

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Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

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