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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

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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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Whatever limits us we call fate.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

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Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

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The eye is easily frightened.

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Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

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The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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