"The king is the man who can."
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"What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine."
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"If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear."
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"Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!"
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"A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up."
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"Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other."
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"Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?"
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"The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health."
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"How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil."
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"Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?"
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"So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return."
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"They only are wise who know that they know nothing."
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"Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor."
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"Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment."
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"With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much."
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"Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren."
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"The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better."
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"The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort."
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"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!"
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"Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does."
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