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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

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Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

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I love doctors and hate their medicine.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

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I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

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I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

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My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

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I loafe and invite my soul.

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The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

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