"I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind."
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"When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long."
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"Imagination is a very high sort of seeing."
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"Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?"
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"Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits."
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"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
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"Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are."
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"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know."
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"It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision."
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"The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be."
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"The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field."
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"Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days."
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"Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want."
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"It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere"
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"Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great."
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"Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose."
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"Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present."
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"Let us leave hurry to slaves."
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"All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life."
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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."
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