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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

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Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

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We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

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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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Always scorn appearances and you always may.

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To Be is to live with God.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

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We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

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