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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid…
— Annie Besant
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself.…
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It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so…
— Seneca the Younger
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
— Seneca the Younger
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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates…
— Agnes Repplier
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
— W. S. Gilbert
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To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any…
— Truman G. Madsen
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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
— William Shakespeare
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing -…
— Phillips Brooks
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