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The health of the eye demands a horizon.

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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

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A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

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I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

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The highest end of government is the culture of men.

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

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