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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

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The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

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Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

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Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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