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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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Some will always be above others.

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

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The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

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If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

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