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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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I am a part and parcel of God.

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Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

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Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

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The dearest events are summer-rain.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

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There is no history; only biography.

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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

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The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

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Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

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All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension.

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All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

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