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Souls are not saved in bundles.

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

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The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

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The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

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Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

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