It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,...
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Forgiveness
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those strange, half-naked beings one glimpses through cellar windows, whose wild-seeming cries floating out of those depths always makes a painful impression. In the morning, one sees these pale men, still white with flour, carrying a loaf under one arm, going off to rest and gather new strength to renew their hard and useful labor when night comes again. I have always highly esteemed the brave and humble workers who labor all night to produce those soft but crusty loaves that look more like cake than bread.
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Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.
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Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age:...
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Humor
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life;
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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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