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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

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Immitation is suicide.

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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

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This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

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We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

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