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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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