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Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

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What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

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In every parting there is an image of death.

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It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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