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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

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So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

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