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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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