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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

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No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

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God will not make himself manifest to cowards

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

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The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

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Power is the first good.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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