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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

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The poor are only they who feel poor.

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

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Nature abhors the old.

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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

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Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

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A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

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