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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Friendship
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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Husband and wife come to look alike at last
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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