"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
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"We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth."
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"God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical."
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"The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web."
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"No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them."
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"Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system."
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"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child."
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"Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever."
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"I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
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"The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of."
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"Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself."
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"Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit."
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"Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much."
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"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."
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"What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection."
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"Every artist was first an amateur."
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"When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking."
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
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"Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not."
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"The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them."
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