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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
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Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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It's never too late to be who you might have been.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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