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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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Life is a search after power.

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

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It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

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It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

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