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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

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The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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Thou art to me a delicious torment.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

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Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

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