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Insist upon yourself. Be original.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

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I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

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Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

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The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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Your work should be in praise of what you love.

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No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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