"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates."
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"There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live."
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"So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes."
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"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
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"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."
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"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace."
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"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
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"Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form."
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"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue."
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"Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?""
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"Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it."
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"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
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"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm."
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"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us."
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."
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"God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor."
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"He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."
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"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
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"Do what you know and perception is converted into character."
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"Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?"
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