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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

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In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

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When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

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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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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

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Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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