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O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
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Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
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Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman -dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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