"The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart."
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"Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration."
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"There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair."
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"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
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"Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul."
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"In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing."
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"Look to be treated by others as you have treated others."
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"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
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"The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement."
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"When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!"
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"Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero."
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"Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History."
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"It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him."
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"There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man."
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"I want to meet my God awake."
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"No man is born without ambitious worldly desires."
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"Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course."
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"Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself."
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"An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night."
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"A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself."
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