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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

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We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

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He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

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Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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