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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

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This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

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What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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Insist upon yourself. Be original.

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Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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Earth endures; Stars abide.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

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The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

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