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...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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Our prayers are prophets.

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Some people are born very far from home.

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

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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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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

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For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

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Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye.

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I like people who like Plato.

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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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