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/ page 262 of 1205 /Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Popularity It is glory's small change.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
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Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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