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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

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As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

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Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

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We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

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None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

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The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

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A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

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