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"There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day."
"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake."
"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground."
"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know."
"Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?"
"I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough."
"There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat."
"The highest revelation is that God is in every man."
"All life is an experiment."
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think."
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
"Our strength grows out of our weakness."
"The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near."
"There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries."