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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

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The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

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The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

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A day is a miniature eternity.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

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To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

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Life is our dictionary.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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I see my trees repair their boughs.

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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

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