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" A great man is the man who does something for the first time. "
Man
Great
Great Man
" A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. "
Plant
Tree
Plants
" A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. "
Stars
Man
Gazing
" A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. "
Man
Rich
Real
" Books are a finer world within the world. "
Within
Finer
World
" Christmas is the day that holds all time together. "
Time
Holds
Day
" Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. "
Ugly
Death
Fact
" Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. "
Liking
Road
Personal
" Everything is sweetened by risk. "
Everything
Risk
" How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. "
Human Heart
Human
Gardening
" If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. "
Your
Wish
You
" I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. "
History
Library
Go
" In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. "
Life
Unexpected
Today
" I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. "
Victory
Memorial Day
Remembered
" Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. "
Love Is
Love
Recognition
" The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn. "
Keep
Taciturn
Wise
" The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. "
Lose
Keep
Man
" There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. "
Difficult
Lay
Injury
" The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. "
God
Woman
Soul
" The sea complains upon a thousand shores. "
Sea
Shores
Thousand
" To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. "
Care
Quoted
Fame
" To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. "
Present
Creation
Portrait
" Trees are your best antiques. "
Best
Antiques
Trees
" Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. "
Life
Misery
Human
" We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once. "
Happy
Were
Remember
" We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. "
Over It
Dead
Grass
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