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"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel."
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"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."
Thought

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
Beauty

"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
Difference

"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."
Love

"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."
Beauty

"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Lie

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
Art

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
Emotional

"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."
Philosophy

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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