Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful
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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.
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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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