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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

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I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

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Confound these ancestors... they've stolen our best ideas!

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All concord's born of contraries.

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

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Blueness doth express trueness.

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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

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The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present.

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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

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He's not out seeing a sight but the rock...

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Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at;

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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

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The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone In the ranks of death you'll find him,...

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If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional individuals or identified with brilliance. In ordinary life creativity means making something for the soul out of every experience.

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

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