"Cunning is strength withheld."
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"Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man."
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"He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming."
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"Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it."
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"Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass."
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here."
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"Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes."
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"Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know."
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"It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice."
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"When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near."
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"Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."
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"There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure."
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"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship"
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"The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it."
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"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"
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"In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us."
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"Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons."
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"The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands."
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"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books."
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"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."
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