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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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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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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

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The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

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You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

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It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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The first wealth is health.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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