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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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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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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

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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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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

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All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

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What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

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