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There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

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Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

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Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

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We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

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