"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
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"Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time."
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"There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
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"Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all."
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"Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold."
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"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
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"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."
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"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife."
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"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."
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"The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage."
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"We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness."
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"Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts."
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"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
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"I accept the universe!"
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"It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy"
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"Artists are always young."
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"For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life."
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"Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself"
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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."
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"While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble."
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