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| ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. | | Love and Hate | | |
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| A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. | | War and Peace | | |
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