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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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We wake from one dream into another dream.

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The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

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I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

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