"Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal."
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"Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."
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"But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's."
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"Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance."
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"Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread."
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"The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball."
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"You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity."
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"In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour."
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"Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self."
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"I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings."
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"My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past."
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"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual."
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"It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb."
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"Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities."
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"The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate."
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"Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge."
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"We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it."
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"No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality."
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"Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled."
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"Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying."
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