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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not…
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by…
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,…
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual…
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what…
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in…
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and…
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
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Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
— Thomas Paine
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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art…
— Albert Einstein
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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science.…
— Hans Selye
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
— Heraclitus
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
— William Blake
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
— Hosea Ballou
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By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's…
— Charles Dance
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
— Silius Italicus
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