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Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

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Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

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The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

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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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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

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A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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Truth is the summit of being.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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