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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

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You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

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I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

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There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

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