"If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last."
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"The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed."
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"The primary wisdom is intuition."
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"The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves."
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"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
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"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
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"The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things."
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"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine."
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"As soon as there is life there is danger."
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"Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual"
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"All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better."
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"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."
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"Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life."
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"It all begins when the soul would have its way with you."
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
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"We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?"
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"We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments."
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"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
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"All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art."
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"Fate is unpenetrated causes."
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