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All promise outruns performance.

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Wisdom is infused into every form.

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How much finer things are in composition than alone.

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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

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Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

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The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

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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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Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

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Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

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