"Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind."
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"He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness."
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"Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done."
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"The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed."
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"Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned."
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"What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm."
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"You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth."
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"Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."
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"Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force."
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"We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can."
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"Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!"
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"Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired."
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"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."
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"Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology."
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"Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom."
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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
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"There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment."
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"Fear loves the idea of danger."
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"The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves."
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"It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful."
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