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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

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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 antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

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The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

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