"The owl goes not into the nest of the lark."
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"Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein."
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"A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years."
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"It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset."
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"At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry"
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"Life is a flower of which love is honey."
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."
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"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness."
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"We teachers make the road, others will make the journey."
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"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
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"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
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"The malicious have a dark happiness."
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"Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution"
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"Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed."
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"Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names."
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"We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present."
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"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
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"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars."
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"He does not weep who does not see."
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"Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it."
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