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Self trust is the essence of heroism.

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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

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Man is the dwarf of himself.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

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The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

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Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

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To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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To Be is to live with God.

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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

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The best of life is conversation.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

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