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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

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Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

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For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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Do your thing, and I shall know you.

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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

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