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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for Porto Rique, Far-off heats through seas to seek. I will follow thee alone, Thou animated torrid-zone!

Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, . . . . Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Blame is safer than praise.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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

The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart. So let each dweller on the Bay Fold Boston in his heart Till these echoes be choked with snows Or over the town blue ocean flows.

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

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.