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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

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The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

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Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

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Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

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Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

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Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

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When there is no vision, people perish.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

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Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

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All writing comes by the grace of God.

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