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Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
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Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
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Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
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Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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