"Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps."
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"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression"
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"Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?"
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"Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse"
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"A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again."
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"Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence."
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"Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity."
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"Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless."
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"Inspiration must find answering inspiration."
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"Nature is thought immersed in matter. . ."
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"Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only."
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"Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency."
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"Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown."
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"A chaste generation would restore Paradise."
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"Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman."
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"Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise."
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"The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule."
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"All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality."
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"Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness."
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"Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it."
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