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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

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Convert life into truth.

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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

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