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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

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We put our love where we have put our labor.

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There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.

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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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