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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

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The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

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Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

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Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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

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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

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Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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