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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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Beauty is a natural superiority.

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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

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