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This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=58","value":58},"note":null},{"text":"I am glad to the brink of fear.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=68","value":68},"note":null},{"text":"I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all;","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=72","value":72},"note":null},{"text":"I am part or particle of God.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=73","value":73},"note":null},{"text":"But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=1172","value":1172},"note":null},{"text":"A new person is to me a great event and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit. Thought is not born of it; my action is very little modified.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2178","value":2178},"note":null},{"text":"Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank; that being permitted to speak truth, as having none above it to court or conform unto.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2240","value":2240},"note":null},{"text":"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2241","value":2241},"note":null},{"text":"But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2250","value":2250},"note":null},{"text":"behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2252","value":2252},"note":null},{"text":"I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I effectually am, and tender myself least to him to whom I am the most devoted.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2258","value":2258},"note":null},{"text":"It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and the trances of religion.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2268","value":2268},"note":null},{"text":"Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2277","value":2277},"note":null},{"text":"In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2279","value":2279},"note":null},{"text":"which requires an absolute running of two souls into one.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2282","value":2282},"note":null},{"text":"In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought he will regain his tongue.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2286","value":2286},"note":null},{"text":"Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2287","value":2287},"note":null},{"text":"am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance. Let him not cease an instant to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2289","value":2289},"note":null},{"text":"I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2290","value":2290},"note":null},{"text":"The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2291","value":2291},"note":null},{"text":"There must be very two, before there can be very one.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2292","value":2292},"note":null},{"text":"We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will call it out and reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2336","value":2336},"note":null},{"text":"shall regret the lost literature of your mind,","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2349","value":2349},"note":null},{"text":"where a man is not vain and egotistic you shall find what he has not by his praise.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2369","value":2369},"note":null},{"text":"Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to be painted, a lock to be repaired.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2402","value":2402},"note":null},{"text":"Do what we can, summer will have its flies; if we walk in the woods we must feed mosquitos; if we go a-fishing we must expect a wet coat.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2405","value":2405},"note":null},{"text":"And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2728","value":2728},"note":null},{"text":"The soul circumscribes all things.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2753","value":2753},"note":null},{"text":"Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2759","value":2759},"note":null},{"text":"It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2777","value":2777},"note":null},{"text":"Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2807","value":2807},"note":null},{"text":"In their habitual and mean service to the world, for which they forsake their native nobleness, they resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty, to escape the rapacity of the Pacha, and reserve all their display of wealth for their interior and guarded retirements.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2808","value":2808},"note":null},{"text":"In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2811","value":2811},"note":null},{"text":"It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,—this is the mark and character of intelligence.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2817","value":2817},"note":null},{"text":"We are wiser than we know. If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2820","value":2820},"note":null},{"text":"We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=2826","value":2826},"note":null},{"text":"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3292","value":3292},"note":null},{"text":"Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place to a new.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3304","value":3304},"note":null},{"text":"Take thankfully and heartily all they can give. Exhaust them, wrestle with them, let them not go until their blessing be won,","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3309","value":3309},"note":null},{"text":"He is now to approve himself a master of delight to me also. If he cannot do that, all his fame shall avail him nothing with me. I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3315","value":3315},"note":null},{"text":"The Bacon, the Spinoza, the Hume, Schelling, Kant, or whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness which you have also your way of seeing, perhaps of denominating.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3317","value":3317},"note":null},{"text":"Say then, instead of too timidly poring into his obscure sense, that he has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try. If Plato cannot, perhaps Spinoza will. If Spinoza cannot, then perhaps Kant.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3319","value":3319},"note":null},{"text":"And live on even terms with Time; Whilst upper life the slender rill Of human sense doth overfill.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3345","value":3345},"note":null},{"text":"The details, the prose of nature","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3349","value":3349},"note":null},{"text":"the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which is to him good;","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3350","value":3350},"note":null},{"text":"value the expression of nature and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy the features that please him.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3352","value":3352},"note":null},{"text":"He will give the gloom of gloom and the sunshine of sunshine.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3352","value":3352},"note":null},{"text":"esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=3353","value":3353},"note":null},{"text":"Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities!","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=5372","value":5372},"note":null},{"text":"If John was perfect, why are you and I alive?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=5374","value":5374},"note":null},{"text":"Why have only two or three ways of life, and not thousands?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=5378","value":5378},"note":null},{"text":"the great genius only for joy; for one star more in our constellation, for one tree more in our grove. 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The world of any moment is the merest appearance.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=5948","value":5948},"note":null},{"text":"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=5955","value":5955},"note":null},{"text":"the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable, most public and universally true.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=5960","value":5960},"note":null},{"text":"Fear always springs from ignorance.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=5964","value":5964},"note":null},{"text":"show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk, in these suburbs and extremities of nature; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;[81] and the shop, the plow, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing;—and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and order: there is no trifle, there is no puzzle, but one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00YTA5FM0&location=6031","value":6031},"note":null},{"text":"This writing is blood-warm. Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote. The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. 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