" In every work of genius we recongize our own rejected throughts: they come back to us with certain alienated majesty."
"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver."
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
"A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephermeral but he."
"[...] truth is handsomer than the affection of love."
"With consistency a great soul has smply nothing to do. [...] To be great is to be misunderstood."
"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity."
"Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions, and knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due. He may err in the expression of them, but he knows that these things are so, like day and night, not to be disputed."
"Whenever a mind is simple, and recieves a divine wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour."
"But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. A times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friends, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,--"Come out unto us." But keep thy state; come not into their confusion."
"We are afraidof truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other."
"Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?"
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
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