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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

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The primary wisdom is intuition.

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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

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All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

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You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

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

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Power is the first good.

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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

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Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

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