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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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A forte always makes a foible.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

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To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

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The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

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