"To meditate is to labour; to think is to act."
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"Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he"
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"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."
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"You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope."
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"There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it."
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"Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear."
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"I was always a lover of soft-winged things."
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"Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit."
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"Progress is the life-style of man."
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"Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich."
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"Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation."
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"Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder."
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"Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition"
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"There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius."
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"Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars"
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"Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men."
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"Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness."
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"God made the water but men made the wine."
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"We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted."
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"People do not read stupidities with impunity."
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