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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

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