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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

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For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

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We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

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It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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