"What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us."
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"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
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"When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first."
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"It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself."
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"there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are."
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"Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong"
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"I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise."
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"Make yourself necessary to somebody."
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"Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock."
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"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."
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"Every man is as lazy as he dares to be."
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"It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again."
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"For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!"
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"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
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"The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen."
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"Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding."
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"The health of the eye demands a horizon."
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"Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start."
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"Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak."
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"Art is a jealous mistress."
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