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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

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The people are to be taken in very small doses.

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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

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A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

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