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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

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Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

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