"The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence."
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"I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning."
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"The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea."
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"That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose."
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"All our ignorance brings us closer to death."
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"The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet."
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"The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture."
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"He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent."
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"All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony."
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"Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling."
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"What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?"
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"Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves."
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