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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

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It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

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