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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

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Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

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The instinct of the people is right.

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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

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The dearest events are summer-rain.

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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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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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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The reality is more excellent than the report.

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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

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