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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
I accept the universe!
Artists are always young.
Truth is the first of jewels.
Be what you would seem to be.
Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
The life of the soul is incalculable.
Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.
I find no intellect comparable to my own
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
