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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

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Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

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