Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression. With yellow the eye rejoices, the heart expands, the spirit is cheered and we immediately feel warmed. Many people feel an inclination to laugh when looking through a yellow glass.
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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He who seizes the right moment is the right man.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
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A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
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I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad...
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A man's errors are what make him amiable.
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A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
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