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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were...
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Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and...
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Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave...
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No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her...
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what...
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While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy...
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the...
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As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that...
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed...