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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our…
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child…
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,…
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing,…
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy…
— William Wordsworth
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom,…
— Robert Burns
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by…
— Mortimer Collins
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I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
— Thomas Mann
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Soldiers of the ploughshare aswell as soldiers of the sword.
— John Ruskin
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