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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

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There is a crack in everything God has made

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

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a good reader makes a good book

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

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Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

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I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

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All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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Thought is the seed of action.

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Where there is no vision a people perish.

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Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

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