"The true poem is the poet's mind."
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"In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part."
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"A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds."
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"Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes."
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"Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody."
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"Doing well is a result of doing good."
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"All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves."
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"The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it."
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"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art."
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"We put our love where we have put our labor."
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"Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations"
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"No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken."
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"Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover."
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"Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in."
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"Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern."
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"A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts."
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"A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein."
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"In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue."
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"A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
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"All the world loves a lover."
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