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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

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Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

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Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

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