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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

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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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Whatever limits us we call fate.

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The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

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Life is a festival only to the wise.

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

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