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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

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All history is biography.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

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We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

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You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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