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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

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It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

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Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

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My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

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Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

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I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

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