"The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean."
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"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks."
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"...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man."
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"Nature is the symbol of Spirit."
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"Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation."
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"In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views."
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"None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed."
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"What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it."
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"Teach the children! It is painting in fresco."
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"Education should be as broad as man."
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"In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say."
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"We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables."
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"Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers."
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"It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone."
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"English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in."
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"There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it."
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"Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns."
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"Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature."
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"A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right."
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"The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact."
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