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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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