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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

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We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

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What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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