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The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

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A forte always makes a foible.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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Beauty without expression is boring.

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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America is another name for opportunity.

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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