"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."
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"To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?"
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"Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."
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"All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven."
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"Man is a tool-using animal."
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"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
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""Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith.""
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"Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal."
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"All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught."
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"Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn."
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"All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you."
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"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."
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"The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it."
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"I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it."
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"He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living."
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"All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!"
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"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
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"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."
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"The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him."
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