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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…
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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück,…
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his…
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I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been…
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For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to…
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Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock…
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