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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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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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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

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We change whether we like it or not.

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...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

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There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

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We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

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I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

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