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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
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We are prisoners of ideas.
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We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing
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