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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price

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