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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

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Eyes...They speak all languages.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

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Society has no bribe for me.

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

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In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

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You cannot make a cheap palace.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

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