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History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

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Nothing happens unless first a dream.

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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

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Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

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Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.

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To Greece we give our shining blades.

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

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The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.

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True change takes place in the imagination.

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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

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There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.

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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

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Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

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To live with them is far less sweet, than to remember thee!

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