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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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