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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

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You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

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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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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

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The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

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What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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