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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

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We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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