"To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter."
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"O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light."
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"Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge."
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"Innocence has a friend in heaven."
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"It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom..."
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"Love can sun the realms of night."
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"As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys."
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"Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should."
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"The May of life blooms once and never again."
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"Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny."
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"Song forbids victorious deeds to die."
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"The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity."
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"False fancy brings real misery."
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"Gray hairs are death's blossoms."
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"Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit."
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"There is a nobility in the world of manners."
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"The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man."
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"Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning."
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"From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear."
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"You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race."
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