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The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

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No one suspects the days to be gods.

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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

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All vigor is contagious.

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Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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Every word was once a poem.

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

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Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

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