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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

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You cannot see the mountain near.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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He is great who confers the most benefits.

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