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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

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And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

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Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

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The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

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The poor are only they who feel poor.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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