"The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health."
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"There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact."
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"Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings."
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"A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic."
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"Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory."
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"If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him."
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"Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood."
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"What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of."
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"The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge."
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"What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion."
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"Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first."
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"True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together."
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"That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so."
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"We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions."
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"The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious."
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"A man should carry nature in his head."
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"But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience."
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"A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction."
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"In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon."
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"God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession."
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