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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

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Beauty without expression is boring.

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No man can help another without helping himself.

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But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

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Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

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When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.

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Genius is its own end.

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One must be an inventor to read well.

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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

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