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Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

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The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

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If we live truly, we shall see truly.

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Our prayers are prophets.

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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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An empire is an immense egotism.

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The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

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The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

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