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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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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

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Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

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He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

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Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

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All the world loves a lover.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

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Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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