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" Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cannot
Knowledge
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" The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. "
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" People only see what they are prepared to see. "
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" Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. "
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" I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. "
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" Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. "
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" All mankind love a lover. "
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" Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. "
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" There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. "
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" One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. "
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" A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. "
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" Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. "
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Speaks
Saying
" The years teach much which the days never know. "
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Teach
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" Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. "
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" A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. "
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Event
Day
" Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. "
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Love
Goodness
" Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. "
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Truth
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" Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. "
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Fiction
" The earth laughs in flowers. "
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Nature
Flowers
" I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. "
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Day
Live
" Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. "
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Want
You
" Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. "
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God
Beautiful
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" There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. "
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Anarchy
God
Sitting
" I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. "
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Silent
Like
Better
" Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. "
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Character
Great
Be Strong
" You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. "
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Kindness
Late
Know
" We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. "
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Muses
Europe
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Will
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" Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. "
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Nothing
Sense