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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

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No society can ever be so large as one man.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

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Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

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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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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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Society has no bribe for me.

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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

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The virtue of books is to be readable.

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It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

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Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

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Always scorn appearances and you always may.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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