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

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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

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

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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The instinct of the people is right.

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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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We walk alone in the world.

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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

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