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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

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For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.

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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

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In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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Whatever you do, you need courage.

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