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

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The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

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The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

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Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

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For everything you gain, you lose something.

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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

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What we call results are beginnings.

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