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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

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Language is the archives of history.

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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

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I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

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Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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