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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

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To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

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There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

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How much finer things are in composition than alone.

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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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Every noble activity makes room for itself.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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