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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

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A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

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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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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

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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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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

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Every time you wink the stars move.

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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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