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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

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Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

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It is defeat which educates us.

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

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Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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