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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

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A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

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Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

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Souls are not saved in bundles.

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

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Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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