No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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