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"Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us."
"Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man."
"Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?"
"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man."
"Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe ."
"The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world."
"We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils."
"Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes."
"Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real."
"The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin."
"Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men."
"Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself."
"The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful."
"The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die."
"The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges."
"In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph."
"We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned."
"Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these."
"Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future."
"It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet."