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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

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Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

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Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.

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When in doubt, do it.

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

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Have the courage to act instead of react.

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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