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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. |
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. |
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. |
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children. |
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. |
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. |
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion. |
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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. |
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. |
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise |
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. |
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Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right. |
Anger; Injustice |
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. |
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Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room). |
Humility; Love; Service |
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. |
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Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do |
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Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. |
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