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To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that m...

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education often labors to si...

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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...

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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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If I refuse My study for their politique, Which at the best is trick, The angry Muse Puts confusion in my brain.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Science

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The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emble...

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It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

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I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

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Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark,...

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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches a...

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Imitation is suicide.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.

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