"Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds."
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"A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs."
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"Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God."
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"Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?"
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"Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty."
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"Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people."
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"A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation."
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"Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing."
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"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem."
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"That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often."
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"You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business."
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"There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow."
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"He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter."
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"A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right."
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"I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking."
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"Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact."
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"Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it."
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"...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!"
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"The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things."
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"A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
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