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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Imitation is suicide.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Language is fossil poetry.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.