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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

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