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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

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To generalize is to be an idiot.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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What is now proved was once only imagined.

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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

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The eye altering, alters all.

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