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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

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A hair divides what is false and true.

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And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help - for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.

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Flowers feed the soul.

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

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Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

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We have used the Bible as if it was a constable's handbook - an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. Mend my life! each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do-- determined to save the only life you could save.

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