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But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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All men are poets at heart.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

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The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

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It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

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We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

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It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

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Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

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No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

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