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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in…
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Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts
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I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great…
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The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those…
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Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state…
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Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by…
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These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
— Louis Pasteur
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Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal…
— Louis Pasteur
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He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.
— John Owen
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Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room…
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