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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
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