"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."
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"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
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"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor."
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"Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere"
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"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."
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"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit."
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"My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!"
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"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
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"This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light."
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"It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best."
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"Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing."
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"Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom."
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"Nature tells every secret once."
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"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."
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"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
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"When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit."
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"The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment."
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"One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity."
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