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- People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
- Only law can give us freedom.
- No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man…
- Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
- People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
- Come my little one, and give me your hand.
- One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
- Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his…
- The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
- Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
- We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
- It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to…
- There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings…
- Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give…
- Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
- If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as…
- We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can…
- My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something…
- Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
- Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
- There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
- [W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
- How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best,…
- I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge…
- It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
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