A great man is always willing to be little.
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
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A poet in verse or prose must have a sensuous eye, but an intellectual co-perception.
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