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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business…
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
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Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down…
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Those clouds are angels' robes.
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each…
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[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and…
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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only…
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Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the…
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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
— John Buchanan Robinson
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Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak.…
— Charles Kingsley
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I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it…
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If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who…
— Milan Kundera
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...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money,…
— Erich Fromm
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There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and…
— Paul Bourget
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How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every…
— Wynton Marsalis
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I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress.
— KM II
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