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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
Divinity College Address (1838)
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
Divinity College Address (1838)
The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
Divinity College Address (1838)
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
Divinity College Address (1838)
In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God?
Divinity College Address (1838)
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Divinity College Address (1838)