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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

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Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

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Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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Reality is a sliding door.

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