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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

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We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

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Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

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If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

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An empire is an immense egotism.

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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