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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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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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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

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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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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