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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

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The highest virtue is always against the law.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

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We go to Europe to be Americanized.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

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The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

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Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

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