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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

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Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

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All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

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The eye of prudence may never shut.

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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

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

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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

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