Quote #17

Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.

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  1. The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
  2. In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
  3. The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
  4. A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
  5. A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
  6. Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
  7. This great maxim of Philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone: That man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or…
  8. : with what scientific stoicism he walks through the land of wonders, unwondering :

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