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What potent blood hath modest May.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

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Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

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I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

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What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

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We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

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A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

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