"Pride ruined the angels."
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"He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God."
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"No one suspects the days to be gods."
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"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."
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"The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard."
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"Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue."
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"Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace."
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"The field cannot be seen from within the field."
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"Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times."
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"Necessity does everything well."
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"He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses."
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"Life only avails, not the having lived."
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"Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old."
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"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it."
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"Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?"
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"We never touch but at points."
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"What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects."
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"When half-gods go The gods arrive."
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"Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one."
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"The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'"
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