"The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob."
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"Commonsense is the wick of the candle."
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"The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else."
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"God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends."
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"Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far."
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"Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching."
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"The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses."
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"Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both."
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"A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees."
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"Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show."
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"The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do."
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"The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart."
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"A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed."
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"Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed."
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"Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old."
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"The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God."
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"Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world."
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"Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life."
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"All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters."
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"In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain."
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