"Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts."
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"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."
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"It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History."
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"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
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"To be great is to be misunderstood."
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"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
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"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
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"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere."
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"Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider."
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"The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting."
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"Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide."
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"Let the bird sing without deciphering the song."
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"Everything intercepts us from ourselves."
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"Thou art to me a delicious torment."
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"As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world"
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"The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul"
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"Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves."
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"The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb."
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"Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow"
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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
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