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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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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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Make youself necessary to someone.

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Always scorn appearances and you always may.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

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Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

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A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

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A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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