"Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go."
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"Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition."
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"Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!"
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"Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature."
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"As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought."
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"Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man."
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"The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."
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"For everything you gain, you lose something."
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"The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions."
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"The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die."
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"Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day."
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"The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."
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"Money often costs too much."
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"The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit."
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"What is the hardest task in the world? To think."
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
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"Life is our dictionary."
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"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper."
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"Postpone not your life."
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"The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."
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