"The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward."
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"I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring."
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"Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books."
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"The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
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"A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly."
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"The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce."
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"The reality is more excellent than the report."
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"The man in the street does not know a star in the sky."
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"If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed."
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"Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes."
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"The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds."
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"The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes."
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"If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral."
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"There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all."
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"The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them."
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"To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence."
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"It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object."
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"An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel."
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"Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards."
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"No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment."
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