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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

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A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

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Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

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

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

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We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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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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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

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He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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