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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

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Humility is the secret of the wise.

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I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

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

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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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Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.

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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

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