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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

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Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

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