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The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

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It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

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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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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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When it's dark enough men see stars.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

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Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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