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The sea-green Incorruptible [Robespierre].

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Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

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Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

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Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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The foul sluggard's comfort: 'It will last my time.'

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A man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

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With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

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The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

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"Schiller", first published in Fraser's Magazine (1831).

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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

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A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading.

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Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!

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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

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A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

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The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

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What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.

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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

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Self-contemplation... is infallibly the symptom of disease.

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