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" The reward of a thing well done is having done it. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. "
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" There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. "
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" Children are all foreigners. "
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" You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. "
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" Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. "
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" People only see what they are prepared to see. "
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" Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.' "
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" America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. "
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" Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. "
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" Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. "
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" It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' "
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" We acquire the strength we have overcome. "
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Acquire
Strength
Overcome
" The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. "
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" A man is what he thinks about all day long. "
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About
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" We are wiser than we know. "
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Wisdom
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" People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. "
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Show
Seem
" Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? "
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Volumes
One Word
" The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. "
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" Power and speed be hands and feet. "
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Power
Feet
" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "
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Truth Is
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" Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
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House
Man
" Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. "
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Men
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" Every artist was first an amateur. "
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First
" When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. "
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" The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? "
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Who
Nature
" 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
" Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. "
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History
Man
" With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. "
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Life
Future
" Revolutions go not backward. "
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" Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. "
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