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An empire is an immense egotism.

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Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

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No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

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Our moods do not believe in each other.

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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

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My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

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