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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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It is one soul which animates all men.

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

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All things are known to the soul.

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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

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