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Some people are born very far from home.

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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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Culture opens the sense of beauty.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

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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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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

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England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

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A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

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