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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

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Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

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Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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A system-grinder hates the truth.

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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

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A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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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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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

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