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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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All writing comes by the grace of God.

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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

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Every man is a new method.

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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

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Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

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The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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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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Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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