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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

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The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

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The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

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We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

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The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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Our best history is still poetry.

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An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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You are constantly invited to be what you are.

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