"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it."
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"There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates."
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"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
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"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."
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"The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst."
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"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own."
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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
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"Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief."
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"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."
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"And what they dare to dream of, date to do."
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"One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world."
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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."
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"The gift without the giver is rare."
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"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
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"The idol is the measure of the worshipper."
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"Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people."
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"True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!"
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"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined."
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"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."
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