"Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give."
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"Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another."
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"The learned man knows that he is ignorant."
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"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
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"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said."
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"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."
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"What makes night within us may leave stars."
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"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real."
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"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."
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"To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind."
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"I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
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"Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God."
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"The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects."
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"Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price."
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"It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe."
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"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."
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"Proverty and wealth are comparative sins."
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"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."
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