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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
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Coal is a portable climate.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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There is always safety in valor.