"Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds."
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"Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us."
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"Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us."
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"Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore."
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"Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims."
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"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea."
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"Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."
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"The inmost in due time becomes the outmost."
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"If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag."
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"Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker"
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"That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character."
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"Be brave enough to do the loving thing."
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"The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us."
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"When it is dark enough, men see the stars."
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"It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again."
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."
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"Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed."
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"A strenuous soul hates cheap success."
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"I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him."
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"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."
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