euclidean	cosine	manhattan	sentence
9.0	0.2300894966542111	65.0	The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house, and a private man's methods, tally with the solar system, and the laws of give and take, throughout nature ; and, however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain satisfaction, whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts; when he sees that things themselves dictate the price, as they always tend to do, and, in large manufactures, are seen to do.
9.746794344808963	0.14359163172354764	65.0	How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes, — of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee; of Burns, or Scott, or Beethoven, or Wellington, or Goethe, or any container of transcendent power, passing for nobody; of Epaminondas, “ who never says anything, but will listen eternally;” of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions, in intercourse with strangers, worse rather than better clothes, and to appear a little more capricious than he was.
3.872983346207417	0.34299717028501764	13.0	When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor ; but none comes, and none will.
8.426149773176359	0.24494897427831774	55.0	A great man does not wake up on some fine morning, and say, 'I am full of life, I will go to sea, and find an Antarctic continent: to-day I will square the circle : I will ransack botany, and find a new food for man: I have a new architecture in my mind : I foresee a new mechanic power :' no, but he finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.
10.099504938362077	0.1386750490563073	74.0	Had he been less, had he reached only the common measure of great authors, of Bacon, Milton, Tasso, Cervantes, we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate : but, that this man of men, he who gave to the science of mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed, and planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos, — that he should not be wise for himself, — it must even go into the world's history, that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
4.358898943540674	0.3086066999241838	15.0	That man seeth, who seeth that the speculative and the practical doctrines are one.” For great action must draw on the spiritual nature.
4.898979485566356	0.2773500981126146	22.0	269 parts, one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a glut of facts and fruits too fast for any hitherto-existing savans to classify, this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
1.7320508075688772	0.8017837257372731	3.0	The great man makes the great thing.
2.0	0.5773502691896258	4.0	A man, a personal ascendency is the only great phenomenon.
8.48528137423857	0.1643989873053573	52.0	'Let the great world bustle on With war and trade, with camp and town; A thousand men shall dig and cat; At forge and furnace thousands sweat; And thousands sail the purple sea, And give or take the stroke of war, Or crowd the market and bazaar; Oft shall war end, and peace return, And cities rise where cities burn, Ere one man my hill shall climb, Who can turn the golden rhyme.
1.7320508075688772	0.8017837257372731	3.0	The great man makes the great thing.
2.0	0.5773502691896258	4.0	A man, a personal ascendency is the only great phenomenon.
9.643650760992955	0.21538744758532147	69.0	It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then he is caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and T H E POET.
6.0	0.22941573387056174	32.0	Fox thanked the man for his conſidence, and paid him, saying, “his debt was of older standing, and Sheridan must wait.” Lover of liberty, friend of the Hindoo, friend of the African slave, he possessed a great personal popularity; and Napoleon said of him on the occasion of his visit to Paris, in 1805, “Mr.
10.14889156509222	0.13801311186847084	69.0	Osman had a humanity so broad and deep, that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran, as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast, eccentric, or insane man, some fool who had cut off his beard, or who had been mutilated under a vow, or had a pet madness in his brain, but fled at once to him, —that great heart lay there so sunny and hospitable in the centre of the country, that it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to his side.
2.6457513110645907	0.4714045207910316	7.0	Who can tell if Washington be a great man, or no?
6.244997998398398	0.22086305214969307	35.0	As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Web.. ster, or Phillips, all the great interests, whether of state or of property, crowd to him to be their spokesman, so that he is at once a potentate, a ruler of men.
4.47213595499958	0.3015113445777636	14.0	The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him, not that whicii soothies or flatters him.
9.539392014169456	0.14664711502135327	53.0	So great a thing for to devise, Thereto she could so well play I have not wit that can suffice What that her list, that I dare say To comprehend her beauté, That was like to torch bright But thus much I dare saine, that she That every man may take of light Was white, ruddy, fresh, and lifely Enough, and it hath never the less hued, Of manner and of comeliness.
9.38083151964686	0.14907119849998596	66.0	Spirits as like souls as it can, If any, so by love refined, Because such fingers need to knit That he soul's language under That subtile knot which makes us man: And by good love were grown all So must pure lovers' souls descend mind, To affections and to faculties, Within convenient distance stood, Which sense may reach and apHe, (though he knew not which soul prehend; spoke, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
11.532562594670797	0.1217161238900369	97.0	Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Not tied unto the world with care Of public fame, or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise, Or vice; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good : Who hath his life from rumors freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers S feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
14.106735979665885	0.14888750009563956	133.0	Not childhood, full of frown and fret; Not youth, impatient to disown Those visions high, which to forget Were worse than never to have known; Not great men, even when they're good: The good man whom the Lord makes great, By some disgrace of chance or blood He fails not to humiliate: Not these: but souls, found here and there, Oases in our waste of sin, Where every thing is well and fair, And God remits his discipline; Whose sweet subdual of the world The worldling scarce can recognize, And ridicule against it hurled, Drops with a broken sting, and dies; Who nobly, if they cannot know Whether a 'scutcheon's dubious field Carries a falcon or a crow, Fancy a falcon on the shield; Yet ever careful not to hurt God's honor, who creates success, Their praise of even the best desert Is but to have presumed no less; And should their own life plaudits bring, They're simply vexed at heart that such An easy, vea, delightful thing Should move the minds of men so much.
5.291502622129181	0.2581988897471611	26.0	How seldom, friends, a good great | My mind to me a kingdom is; man inherits Such perfect joy therein I find Honor or wealth with all his worth As far exceeds all earthly blisse and pains!
8.366600265340756	0.16666666666666666	62.0	But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth It was the winter wild, began: While the heaven-born child The winds, with wonder whist, All meanly wrapt in the rude man Smoothly the waters kist, ger lies; Whispering new joys to the mild Nature in awe to him ocean, Had doff’d her gaudy trim, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, With her great Master so to sym| While birds of calm sit brooding on pathize: the charmed wave.
4.47213595499958	0.3015113445777636	20.0	non waited, The sun rose bright o'erhead, — Sullen and silent, and like couchant Nothing in Nature's aspect intimated Their canuon, through the night, That a great man was dead!
9.273618495495704	0.22360679774997894	64.0	That was the grandest funeral That ever passed on earth; Yet no man heard the trampling, Or saw the train go forth: Noiselessly as the daylight Comes when the niglit is done, And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek Grows into the great sun; Noiselessly as the spring-time Her crown of verdure weaves, And all the trees on all the hills Unfold their thousand leaves : So without sound of music Or voice of them that wept, Silently down from the mountain's crown The great procession swept.
7.483314773547883	0.18569533817705183	52.0	The friars of Saint Augustine next Appeared to the sight, All clad in homely ruisset weeds, Of godly monkish plight: And when he came to the high cross, Sir Charles did turn and say, “() Thon, that savest man from sin, Wash my soul clean this day!” LXXVII, At the great minster window sat The king in mickle state, To see Charles Bawdin go along To his most welcome fate.
7.211102550927978	0.19245008972987523	44.0	tain taught Again their ravening eagle rose The tyrant, and asserts his claim In anger, wheeled on Europe-shadowIn that dread sound to the great name, ing wings, Which he has worn so pure of blame, And barking for the thrones of kings; In praise and in dispraise the same, Till one that sought but Duty's iron A man of well-attempered frame.
7.211102550927978	0.37139067635410367	46.0	| ThE recluse Hermit ofttimes more doth know THERE is a history in all men's Of the world's inmost wheels, than lives, worldlings can; Figuring the nature of the times As man is of the world, the Heart of deceased; man The which observed a man may Is an epitome of God's great book prophesy, Of creatures, and men need no farWith a near aim of the main chance ther look.
6.855654600401044	0.2020305089104421	41.0	“If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.” He explained LITERATURE.
1.4142135623730951	0.7071067811865475	2.0	Every great man is a unique.
4.898979485566356	0.2773500981126146	24.0	People represent virtue as a struggle, and take to themselves great airs upon their attainments, and the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
4.795831523312719	0.282842712474619	23.0	I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery, and omitting all compliment and commonplace, spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty.
8.18535277187245	0.2517544074890067	55.0	Yet the little man takes the great hoax so innocently, works in it so headlong and believing, is born red, and dies gray, arranging his toilet, attending on his own health, laying traps for sweet food and strong wine, setting his heart on a horse or a rifle, made happy with a little gossip or a little praise, that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense.
11.489125293076057	0.12216944435630522	62.0	The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every THE OVER-SOUL.
9.327379053088816	0.14990633779917228	71.0	Christianity is rightly dear to the best of mankind; yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized : — " Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” Let the claims and virtues of persons be never so great and welcome, the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable, and gladly arms itself against the dogmatism of bigots with this generous word out of the book itself.
2.449489742783178	0.4999999999999999	6.0	A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action.
6.4031242374328485	0.21566554640687682	35.0	Beware of the man who says, “I am on the eve of a revelation.” It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism, and exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
9.746794344808963	0.14359163172354764	65.0	How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes, of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee; of Burns, or Scott, or Beethoven, or Wellington, or Goethe, or any container of transcendent power, passing for nobody; of Epaminondas, “who never says anything, but will listen eternally;” of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers, worse rather than better clothes, and to appear a little more capricious than he was.
6.4031242374328485	0.21566554640687682	35.0	Beware of the man who says, “I am on the eve of a revelation.” It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism, and exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
9.746794344808963	0.14359163172354764	65.0	How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes, — of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee; of Burns, or Scott, or Beethoven, or Wellington, or Goethe, or any container of transcendent power, passing for nobody; of Epaminondas, “who never says anything, but will listen eternally”; of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers, worse rather than better clothes, and to appear a little more capricious than he was.
4.358898943540674	0.3086066999241838	13.0	23 of the Middle Age; Dante's “Vita Nuova," to explain Dante and Beatrice; and Boccaccio's “Life of Dante,” — a great man to describe a greater.
3.872983346207417	0.34299717028501764	15.0	Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
4.795831523312719	0.282842712474619	21.0	The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house, and a private man's methods, tally with the solar system, and the laws of give and take, throughout nature; and, how.
7.280109889280518	0.19069251784911845	41.0	Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, “Manifest virtues procure reputation ; occult ones, fortune.” Thus the so-called fortunate man is one who, thongh not gifted to speak when the people listen, or to act with grace or with understanding to great ends, yet is one who, in actions of a low or common pitch, relies DEMONOLOGY.
12.409673645990857	0.11322770341445956	76.0	“High instincts, before which our mortal nature Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet the master-light of all our seeing, Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence, -truths that wake To perish never.” The moral element invites man to great enlargements, to find his satisfaction, not in particulars or events, but in the purpose and tendency ; not in bread, but in his right to his bread; not in much corn or wool, but in its communication.
3.3166247903554	0.39223227027636803	9.0	The guest was a great man in his own country and an honored diplomatist in this.
9.746794344808963	0.14359163172354764	71.0	He has a just instinct of the presence of a master, and prefers to sit as a scholar with Plato, than as a disputant; and, true to his practical character, he wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner, but to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius : “for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.” T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes him adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.
11.224972160321824	0.12499999999999997	86.0	These idle nobles at Tattersall's — there is no work or word of serious purpose in them; they have this great lying Church ; and life is a humbug.” He prefers Cambridge to Oxford, but he thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men, as the Styx hardened Achilles, so that when they come forth of them, they say, “Now we are proof; we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe ; nor man nor God can penetrate us.” Wellington he respects as real and honest, and as having made up his mind, once for all, that he will not have to do with any kind of a lie.