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In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

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James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

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Every profound spirit needs a mask.

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Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

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I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

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Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

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whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

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