"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."
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"A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again."
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"An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation."
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"Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors."
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"We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it."
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"Knowledge is the antidote to fear"
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"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."
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"It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated."
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"Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it."
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"Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet."
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"Live, let live, and help live"
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"Every man contemplates an angel in his future self."
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"It is defeat which educates us."
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"Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them."
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"If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential."
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"Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape"
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"The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?"
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"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified."
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"Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science."
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"The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes."
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