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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

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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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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

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If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

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I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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