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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

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Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

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A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

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Our moods do not believe in each other.

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

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You are constantly invited to be what you are.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

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