"Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me."
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"Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance."
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"He loves little who loves by rule."
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"I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it."
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"Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death."
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"It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private."
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"If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up."
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"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."
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"Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!"
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"I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good."
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"Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself."
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"Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas."
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"The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose."
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"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so."
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"It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling."
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"I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications."
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"Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing."
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"The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little."
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"There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop."
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"The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is"
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