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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

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This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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Every great man is unique.

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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

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You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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