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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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Life is a search after power.

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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not.

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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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