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/ page 618 of 1205 /Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, satins the white radiance of Eternity, until Death tramples it to fragments.
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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
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Nought may endure but Mutability.
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There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
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