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The soul circumscribes all things.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

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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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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

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Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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Society is a hospital of incurables.

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Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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

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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

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The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

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