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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

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There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

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Money is human happiness in the abstract.

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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

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If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

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Compassion is the basis of morality.

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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

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Newspapers are the second hand of history.

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