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"In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort."
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"In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod."
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"Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort."
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"A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands."
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"[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand."
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"Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy."
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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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"He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand."
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"In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated."
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"The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination."
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"The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned."
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"We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."
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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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"Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it."
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"Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it."
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"Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise."
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"My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader."
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"For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level."
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"Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made."
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