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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

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

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

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

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A moment is a concentrated eternity.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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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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She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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Every advantage has its tax.

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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

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Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

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