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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

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

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

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Power is the first good.

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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

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For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

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A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

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