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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

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Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

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But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

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A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

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