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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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What you are comes to you.

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