Quote #18

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

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  1. We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than …
  2. Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he wo…
  3. It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that…
  4. I accept the universe.
  5. There are two modes of criticism. One which ... crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though…
  6. I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
  7. Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
  8. I am 'too fiery' : yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.

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