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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

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It is defeat which educates us.

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Necessity does everything well.

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The true poem is the poet's mind.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

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The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

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But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

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The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

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