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...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.

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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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