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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

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All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

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For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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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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The soul circumscribes all things.

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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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