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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

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In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

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The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

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I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

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