"You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid."
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"The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection."
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"Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?"
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"The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers."
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"A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors."
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"Earth endures; Stars abide."
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"Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful"
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"Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state."
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"The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain."
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"To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul."
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"That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen."
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"Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact."
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"Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales."
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"Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue."
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"The thing done avails, and not what is said about it."
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"Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion."
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"The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement."
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"Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature."
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"Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work."
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"Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold."
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