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"Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement."
"The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet"
"Manners are the happy ways of doing things."
"The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place."
"'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms."
"One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men.""
"Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech."
"Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged."
"A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world."
"The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours."
"With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing."
"Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm."
"What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought."
"A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms."
"I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints."
"The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."
"We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night."
"The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary."
"At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish."
"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend"