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"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."
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"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."
"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."
"If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer."
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"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."
"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike."
"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell."
"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."
"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."
"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."
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