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The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

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It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

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What you are comes to you.

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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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No institution will be better than the institutor.

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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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