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/ page 552 of 1205 /The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
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The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.
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Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
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If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Never find fault with the absent.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.
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