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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

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Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

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Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.

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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

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O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world ...

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The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

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What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the music of division;...

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