We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade.
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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
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Other world There is no other world Here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
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