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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

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Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

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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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The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

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