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No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

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Every word was once a poem.

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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

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A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

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The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

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My hours are peaceful centuries.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

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