A sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
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Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters.Henry David Thoreau
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
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Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
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I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire -- thinner than the paper on which it is printed . . .
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Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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