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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

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There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

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