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/ page 265 of 1205 /To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
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A HOUSE is built of logs and stone, Of piles and post and piers; A HOME is built of loving deeds, That stand a thousand years.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
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Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Music
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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To love is to act.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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