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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

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I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be.

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What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

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The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

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Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

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How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

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