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"All through his life he kept a journal. This book, he said, was his 'Savings Bank.' The thoughts thus received and garnered in his journals were indexed, and a great many of them appeared in his published works.
do this.
Help must come from the bosom alone.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
He must be an university of ...
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A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
beautiful image...
There are days [470] which occur in this climate, at almost any season of the year, wherein the world reaches its perfection, when the air, the heavenly bodies, and the earth, make a harmony, as if nature would indulge her offspring; when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes, and we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba; when everything that has life gives sign of satisfaction, and the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes.
Here no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
These enchantments are medicinal, they sober and heal us. These are plain pleasures, kindly and native to us. We come to our own, and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise.
novitiate
probation.
villeggiatura,
I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces.
Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty.
He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man.
Æolian
tiralira
patrician
importunate
