He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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The only gift is a portion of thyself ... the poet brings his poem the shepherd his lamb....
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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good.... If we will take the good we find, ... we shall have heaping measures....
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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
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When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
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