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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

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The highest end of government is the culture of men.

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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

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The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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Genius is its own end.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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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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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

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What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

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The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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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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