"He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public."
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"The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree."
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"Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude."
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"The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts."
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"Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours."
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"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."
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"Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live."
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"A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock."
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"Whatever it is, it's better in the wind."
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"Keep your friendships in repair."
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"The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness."
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"It is the eye which makes the horizon."
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"To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories."
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art."
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"The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives."
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"A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched."
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"Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere."
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"'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward."
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"The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time."
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"Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."
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