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The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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An empire is an immense egotism.

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A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

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[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

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If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

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