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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

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How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

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Men in all ways are better than they seem.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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He is great who confers the most benefits.

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

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