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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

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All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

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Some will always be above others.

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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

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What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.

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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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What you are comes to you.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

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