The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work ... if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
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I love thy music, mellow bell,
I love thine iron chime,
To life or death, to heaven or hell,
Which calls the sons of Time.
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The religions we call false were once true.
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