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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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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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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

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Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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The education of the will is the object of our existence.

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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

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A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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There is no God dare wrong a worm.

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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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