"When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame."
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"Too rigid scruples are concealed pride."
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"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"
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"English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre."
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"There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love."
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"I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad."
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"The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care."
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"What matters in art is not thinking but making."
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"I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times."
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"Action has magic, grace and power in it."
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"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
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"Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting."
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"For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]"
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"When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves."
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"Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art."
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"The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never."
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"I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than solitude."
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"What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related."
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"The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation."
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