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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

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I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

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Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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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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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

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