"The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?"
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"An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask."
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"Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine."
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"My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption."
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"Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth."
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"We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!"
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"Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens."
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"The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct."
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"I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional."
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"I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast."
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"It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail."
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"To be gret is to be misunderstood."
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"We may be partial, but Fate is not."
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"The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture."
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"The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream."
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"It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine."
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"The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe."
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"If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience."
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"Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow."
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"Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about."
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