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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

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I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

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Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

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Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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a good reader makes a good book

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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

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Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

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If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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