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"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
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"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."
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"Our ideals are our better selves."
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"The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals."
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"I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them."
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"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."
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"Ideals are the worlds masters."
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"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
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"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."
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"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."
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"Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals."
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"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."
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"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
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"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."
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"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
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"Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim."
Time

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Music

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
Science

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
Age

"Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero."
Religion

"Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!"
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