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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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Never pursue literature as a trade.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

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I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

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