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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

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If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

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The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

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Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

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Anything for a quiet life.

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Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

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There's no hate lost between us.

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He travels best that knows when to return.

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Though I be poor, I'm honest.

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A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

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Music my rampart, and my only one.

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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

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It's all in the mind, you know.

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My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

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I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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