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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

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Great men exist that there might be greater men.

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We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

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A man should carry nature in his head.

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Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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We must be our own before we can be another's.

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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

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But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

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Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

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And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

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