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The eye of prudence may never shut.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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All writing comes by the grace of God.

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A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

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The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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