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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

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Poverty consist in feeling poor.

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If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

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Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

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But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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The world we live in is but thickened light.

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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

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The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

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The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

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