"A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence."
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"The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew."
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"The life of man is a self-evolving circle."
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"Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion."
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"Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books."
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"The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them."
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"Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows."
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"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."
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"The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold"
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"I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals."
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"Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me."
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"No book was ever written down by any but itself."
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"Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential."
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"The education of the will is the object of our existence."
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"Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?"
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"Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time."
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"For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression."
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"The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind."
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"We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder."
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"Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price."
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