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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

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It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.

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The highest end of government is the culture of men.

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The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

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We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

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In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

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