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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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Every advantage has its tax.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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Accuracy is essential to beauty.

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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

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Isolation must precede true society.

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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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