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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

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In imitation is a bit suicide.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

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From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

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Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

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