"Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic."
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"Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it."
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"It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death."
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"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance."
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"Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!"
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"Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
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"The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science."
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"The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature."
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"Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching."
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"Only that mind draws me which I cannot read."
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"A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees."
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"Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind."
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"The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness."
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"Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius."
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"There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same."
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"American mind a wilderness of opportunities."
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"The true poem is the poet's mind."
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"As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it."
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"Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!"
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"When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds."
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