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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

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Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

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The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

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I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

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It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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Music and Wine are one.

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

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Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

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I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

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