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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

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To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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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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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

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Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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