"Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for."
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"Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own."
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"Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error."
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"We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us."
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"The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings."
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"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."
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"The happy do not believe in miracles."
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"Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint."
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"The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five."
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"Experiments are mediators between nature and idea."
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"You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil."
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"Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
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"However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence."
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"He who moves not forward, goes backward."
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"I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own"
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"Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."
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"It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them."
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"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything."
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"No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist."
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"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
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