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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

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To Be is to live with God.

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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

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If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

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Culture opens the sense of beauty.

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