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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

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Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

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War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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A system-grinder hates the truth.

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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

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Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

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Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

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