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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

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The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

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When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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Nature is saturated with Deity.

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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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