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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

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Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye.

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A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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Where there is no vision a people perish.

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A man should carry nature in his head.

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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

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And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

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Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

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

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

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Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

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It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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