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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

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One must be an inventor to read well.

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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

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Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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