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Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

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Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

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God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

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The virtue in most request is conformity.

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In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

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This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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There is one mind common to all individual men

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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

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