"She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep."
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"There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding"
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"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
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"God screens us evermore from premature ideas."
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"Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one."
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."
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"The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's."
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"Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age."
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"Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence."
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"Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment."
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"Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated."
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"Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry."
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"The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry."
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"The eye of prudence may never shut."
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"He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves"
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"For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?"
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"Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill."
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"If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
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"Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony."
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"Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life."
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