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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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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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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

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We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

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Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

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Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

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