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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

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The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

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The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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America is another name for opportunity.

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Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

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