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"He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."
"It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise."
"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."
"I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath."
"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."
"Despair is the only genuine atheism."
"The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls."
"Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages"
"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."
"Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power."
"For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up."
"Repetition is the mother of education."
"Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good."
"Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can."
"Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever."
"The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man."
"A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something."
"The German language is the organ among the languages."
"With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?"
"Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's."