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Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

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Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

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If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

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Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

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Skill to do comes of doing.

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