"What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others."
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"The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity."
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"There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it."
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"Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light."
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"I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed."
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"The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it."
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"In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal."
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"The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us."
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"One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth."
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"We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead."
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"Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none."
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"Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill."
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"The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside."
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"The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may."
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"While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers."
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"I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland."
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"Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all."
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"He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American."
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"And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer."
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"You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic."
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