"Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine."
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"I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature."
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"Accept your genius and say what you think."
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"You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it."
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"The soul circumscribes all things."
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"I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
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"How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public."
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"In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils."
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
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"Sorrow makes us all children again."
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone."
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"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time."
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"Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame."
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"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day."
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"We wake from one dream into another dream."
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"Nothing external to you has any power over you."
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"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
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"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."
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"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
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"Earth laughs in flowers."
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