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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

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There is no history; only biography.

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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

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Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

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We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

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For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

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How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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The hero is suffered to be himself.

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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