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"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

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"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

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"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."

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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

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"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise."

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"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

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"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

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"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure."

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

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"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

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