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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

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It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

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Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

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This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

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In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

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The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

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On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

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If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

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Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

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