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Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

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I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

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Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

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You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

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