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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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