"All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself."
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"Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her."
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"The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else."
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"Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."
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"I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy"
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"Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better."
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"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."
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"Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky."
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"This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again."
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"Wishes are premonitions of abilities."
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"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."
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"Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed."
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"Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by."
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"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
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"Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born"
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"What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive."
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"To make something you have to be something."
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"The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere."
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"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."
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"All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew."
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