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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.
The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.