"Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself."
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"Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed."
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"What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived"
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"For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?"
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"Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate."
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"The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty."
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"The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable."
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"Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them."
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"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."
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"An action is the perfection and publication of thought."
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"If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it."
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"For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly."
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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
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"The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh."
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"What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love."
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"A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray."
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"Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware."
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"Concentration is the secret of srength."
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"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."
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"Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had."
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