"Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
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"You never know how you look through other people's eyes."
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"Do the thing and you will have the power."
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"Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both."
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"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief."
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"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world."
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"To fill the hour──that is happiness."
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"Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart."
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"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
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"There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought."
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"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore.""
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"Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!"
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"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil."
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"The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people."
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"Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events."
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"If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect."
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"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise."
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"Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed"
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"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."
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"I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind."
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