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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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A great man is always willing to be little.

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

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Let there be worse cotton and better men.

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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

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Men are respectable only as they respect.

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

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All high beauty has a moral element in it.

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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

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