"Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse."
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"The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody."
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"Speech is always bolder than action."
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"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells."
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"Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link."
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"If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad."
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"Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire."
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"The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty."
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"The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart."
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"It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth."
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"Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?"
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"The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate."
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"O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?"
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"The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not."
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"He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!"
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"Forgiveness is the divinest of victories."
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"Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!"
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"The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself."
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"I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery."
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"I am my own heaven and hell!"
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