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| He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. | | Uncategorized | | |
