"To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform."
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"I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing."
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"I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful."
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"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."
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"People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor."
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"He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him."
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"Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it."
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"Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea."
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"That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above."
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"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."
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"One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
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"The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations."
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"I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them."
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"A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise."
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"There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]"
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"Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest."
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"What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion."
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"Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!"
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"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."
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