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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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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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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

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Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

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Character teaches above our wills.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

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Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

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We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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