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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

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Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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God will not make himself manifest to cowards

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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