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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

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Literature is eavesdropping.

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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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The highest Beauty should be plain set.

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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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