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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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No pressure, no diamonds.

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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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No violent extreme endures.

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

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