"See deep enough, and you see musically."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so."
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"Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer."
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"Violence does even justice unjustly."
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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
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"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!"
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"In books lies the soul fo the whole past time."
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"In idleness there is a perpetual despair."
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"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."
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"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
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"Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men."
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"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite."
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"Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?"
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"A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me."
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"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."
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"Silence is the eternal duty of man."
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"That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it."
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"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."
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"What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?"
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