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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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