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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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Do what you're afraid to do.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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All great men come out of the middle classes.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

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There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

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What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

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