"Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality."
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"What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment."
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"On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall."
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"No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny."
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"He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little."
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"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."
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"Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!"
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"A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's."
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"Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds."
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"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action."
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"In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully."
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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."
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"No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand."
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"Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn."
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"The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies."
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"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."
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"The first great law is to obey."
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"The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows."
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"Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away."
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"The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven."
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