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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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Look out! Behind you!

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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

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To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

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The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

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Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

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The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

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