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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

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The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

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The first wealth is health.

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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

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

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

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