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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

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If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

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Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

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The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

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