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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

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No society can ever be so large as one man.

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

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Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

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When half-gods go The gods arrive.

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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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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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To Be is to live with God.

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