"One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense."
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"We hate the kindness which we understand."
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"Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature."
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"You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you."
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"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today."
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"Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses."
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"The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence."
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"That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest."
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"The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world."
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"A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine."
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"For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself"
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"The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly."
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
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"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
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"The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor"
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"I have a room all to myself; it is nature."
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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
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"The sun is but a morning star."
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"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."
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"To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundred years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine."
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