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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Least Mankind Object Say
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Been Before Cannot Did
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius

About Expressive Freshness Illiterate
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Book Drift Everything Nothing
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Beautiful Graves Hair
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Advance Behind Fools Go
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Life Endure Personal
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Greatest Hut Man Still
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Bulk Class Few Lands
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Conqueror Ever Exterior Life
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Both Composition Dialect English
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

AlsoBattles Day Fall Gain
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Artist Bad BadManners Humanity
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Bones Fat Find Sticks
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Book
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Celebrate Myself Sing
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Human Scared
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Accept Time Me
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Death Nothing Happen
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Behold Give Lectures Little
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The real war will never get in the books.

War Receive Enemy
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Soul Cool Universe
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Confusion Each Happy Other
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Beautiful Happen More
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Beautiful,Happen,More

Descend Large Me
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Dreams Each Fair Light
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Above Below Camp
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Ability Attitude Important Success
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Autumn Blossoms
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Shaft Archer
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Farmer Barn Grain
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look Back
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Business Capacities
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Timid Impossible
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Side Bolt
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Vices Wine
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Life Burden Finding That
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Any Becomes Fails Fulfill
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Any Clear Fully Grasp
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Nervous Stage Help But
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Any Anything Believes Cheap
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I love hearing my audience breathe.
Love Hearing My Audience
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