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" Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. "

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" One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' "

" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "

" Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. "

" The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. "

" The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. "

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" There is nothing like a dream to create the future. "

" Toleration is the best religion. "

" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "

" Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. "

" There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. "

" Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. "

" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "

" I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "

" Liberation is not deliverance. "

" To contemplate is to look at shadows. "

" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "

" When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. "

" My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. "

" Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. "

" Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. "

" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "

" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "

" I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. "

" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "

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" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "

" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "