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" There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wake
Illusion
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" What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. "
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" Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. "
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" A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. "
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" We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. "
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" If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. "
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" Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. "
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" In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. "
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" No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. "
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" There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. "
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" God enters by a private door into every individual. "
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" As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. "
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" Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. "
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" Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. "
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" The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. "
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Out
Thought
" The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. "
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Explain
Number
" Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. "
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Reading
Writing
" Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. "
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Will
Use
" Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. "
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Truth
Cannot
" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "
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Picturesque
Too
" The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation. "
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Delight
Greatest
" Nature hates calculators. "
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Hates
" Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. "
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" Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. "
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" Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. "
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" Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. "
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Integrity
Own
" Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. "
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Individual
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" Revolutions go not backward. "
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" As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell. "
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