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The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

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Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

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The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

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