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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

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The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

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I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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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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Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

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All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

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The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

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