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"Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at."
"The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it."
"Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet."
"The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike."
"Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical."
"The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!"
"Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction."
"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."
"Song is the heroics of speech."
"Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together."
"A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man."
"And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell."
"History is the new poetry."
"Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider."
"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."
"Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?"
"Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine."
"The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them."
"Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them."
"The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag."