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/ page 1131 of 1205 /The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
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I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
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'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
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To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
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Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
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Faith never makes a confession.
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There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
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