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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

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For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

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Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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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.

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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