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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

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Every dog must have his day.

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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

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Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.

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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

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Mathematics is the music of reason.

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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

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Enough is as good as a feast.

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They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

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