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The true poem is the poet's mind.

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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

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Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

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

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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

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Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

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The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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Friendship buys friendship.

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