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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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Literature is eavesdropping.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

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The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

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There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

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Activity is contagious.

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Coal is a portable climate.

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Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

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