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A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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If we live truly, we shall see truly.

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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

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Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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I like man, but not men.

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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

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