"We must be our own before we can be another's."
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"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet."
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
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"Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals"
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"When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are."
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"Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding."
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"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . ."
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"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
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"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."
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"There is no true orator who is not a hero."
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"A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."
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"Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names."
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"From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all."
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
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"We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery."
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"Every wall is a door."
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
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"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it"
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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
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"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."
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