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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

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Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

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Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

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In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils.

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We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

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So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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