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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

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Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

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Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

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