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Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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Children are all foreigners.

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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

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No one suspects the days to be gods.

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The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

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The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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All high beauty has a moral element in it.

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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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