"When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied."
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"The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end."
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"For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul."
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"Man is the dwarf of himself."
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"There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man."
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"The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face."
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"Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement."
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"Our prayers are prophets."
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"We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven."
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"In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it."
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"There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan."
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"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits."
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"Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes."
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"A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single."
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"We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all."
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"The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes."
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"Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated."
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"He only is rich who owns the day."
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"In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion."
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"Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more."
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