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Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

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Truths and roses have thorns about them.

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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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