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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

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Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

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We wake from one dream into another dream.

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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Eyes...They speak all languages.

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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

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