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| I can promise to be frank, I cannot promise to be impartial. | | Uncategorized | |
| I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial | | Uncategorized | |
| I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. | | Life | |
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| I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. | | Uncategorized | |
| I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. | | Uncategorized | |
| I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it | | Poetry | |
| I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people | | Uncategorized | |
| I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music. | | Uncategorized | |
| I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. | | Respect | |
| I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. | | Uncategorized | |
| I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. | | Uncategorized | |
| I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it | | Uncategorized | |
| I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before. | | Uncategorized | |
| If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long. | | Uncategorized | |
| If a man makes continuous efforts, we can save him. | | Uncategorized | |
