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No man can produce great thing...

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

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The only conclusive evidence o...

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

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Scepticism commonly takes up t...

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

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Making one object, in outward ...

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

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Practical application is the o...

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

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It is curious for one who stud...

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.

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The secret of force in writing...

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

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A great part of human sufferin...

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

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It is right precious to behold...

It is right precious to behold
The first long surf of climbing light
Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

James Lowell 598 quotes

But better far it is to speak<...

But better far it is to speak
One simple word, which now and then
Shall waken their free nature in the weak
And friendless sons of men.

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They talk about their Pilgrim ...

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

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Nature, they say, doth dote, A...

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

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From lower to the higher next,...

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

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Not a change for the better in...

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

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If I were asked what book is b...

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,-and that is a book honestly come by.

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I tell ye wut, my judgment is ...

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

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If God made poets for anything...

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

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No mud can soil us but the mud...

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

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Certainly it is no shame to a ...

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

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How I do love the earth. I fee...

How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

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