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... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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A good message will always find a messenger.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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We generally get the evil we expect.
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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If a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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The matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.