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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

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The virtue of books is to be readable.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

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Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

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Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

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The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

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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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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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