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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

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The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

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There is always safety in valor.

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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

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

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

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Excellence is the new forever.

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