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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

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Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

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The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

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Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

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I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

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Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

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Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

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