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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

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A system-grinder hates the truth.

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We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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Life is a search after power.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

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I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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