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| Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. | | Uncategorized | |
| Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. | | Uncategorized | |
| Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own | | Religion | |
| Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing | | Time | |
| So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent! | | Uncategorized | |
| Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble. | | Uncategorized | |
| Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light | | Uncategorized | |
| Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. | | World | |
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| Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious | | Superstition | |
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| Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. | | Uncategorized | |
| Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world | | Uncategorized | |
| Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. | | Character; Talent | |
