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To fill the hour──that is happiness.

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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

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Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

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Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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Power dwells with cheerfulness.

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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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