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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly, or, with the flower of the mind; not with the intellect, used as an organ, but with the intellect released from all service, and suffered to take its direction fro
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one
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The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
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The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons
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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.
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The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
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The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
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