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| The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine |
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| The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best-chosen word |
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| The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. |
| Beauty; Hope; Laughter; Life |
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| The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool |
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| There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. |
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| There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval |
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| There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. |
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| There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity. |
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| There is no dunce like a mature dunce |
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| There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with. |
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| There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. |
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| Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it. |
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| Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it |
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| Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
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| Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality |
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| To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired |
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| To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. |
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