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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

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To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

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The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

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Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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