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/ page 243 of 1205 /The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor
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Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
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