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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

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America does not presume to know what is best for everyone

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He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

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One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

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God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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