"Produce great men, the rest follows."
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"All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion."
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"We convince by our presence."
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"The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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"The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities."
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"To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy."
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"A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he."
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"A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman."
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"I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones."
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"Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns."
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"Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!"
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"The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange."
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"All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it"
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"Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls."
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity."
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"Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me."
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"I am the man, I suffered, I was there."
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