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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

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I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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The education of the will is the object of our existence.

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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

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Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

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Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

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