"To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."
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"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples."
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"It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it."
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"The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor."
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"Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners."
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"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
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"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
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"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them."
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"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
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"It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem."
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"Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement."
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"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow."
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"I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home."
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"Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say."
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"We boil at different degrees."
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"Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer."
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"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."
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"You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"
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"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."
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