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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.
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Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage,
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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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