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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

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Be not a slave of words.

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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

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The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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