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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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No one can keep a secret better than a child.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

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Oh! Everything I loved!

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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