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- The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
- Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
- The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
- Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat…
- Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
- All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
- But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but…
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is…
- Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal…
- We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not…
- Necessity does everything well.
- Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind…
- The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyoneÂ… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is…
- Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be…
- Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to…
- He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the…
- But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that…
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.…
- The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all…
- Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the…
- The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
- Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find…
- Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it…
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