"Love can do much, but duty more."
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"We will burn that bridge when we come to it."
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"While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err."
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"Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake."
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"Every offense is avenged on earth."
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"It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare to test, by knowledge led; And that which she was wont to organize We crystallize, instead."
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"You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else."
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"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers."
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"I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ."
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"If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything."
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"Sowing is not as difficult as reaping."
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"Come my little one, and give me your hand."
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"Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues."
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"The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God."
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"The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties."
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"With knowledge grows doubt."
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"Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want."
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"Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not."
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"Out of moderation a pure happiness springs."
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"Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world."
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