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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

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I think no virtue goes with size.

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This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

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