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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
[ Kindness ]
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
[ Ambition ]
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Ask the young. They know everything.
[ Youth ]
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
[ Charity ]
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
[ Fate ]
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Children need models rather than critics.
[ Children ]
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
[ Painters and Painting ]
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
[ Labor ]
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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
[ Imagination ]
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
[ Argument ]
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
[ Kindness ]
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
[ Logic ]
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
[ Monuments ]
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
[ Imagination ]
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
[ Modesty ]
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
[ Ideals and Idealism ]
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
[ Manners ]
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Space is the stature of God.
[ Space ]
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
[ Superstition ]
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
[ Tenderness ]
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
[ Argument ]
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
[ Anger ]
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
[ Mind ]
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
[ Goals ]
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
[ Youth ]
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
[ Books - Reading ]
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
[ Humor ]
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
[ Books - Reading ]
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They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
[ Proverbs ]
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To teach is to learn twice.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
[ God ]
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
[ Truth ]
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
[ Consistency ]
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
[ Duty ]
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
[ Spirit and Spirituality ]
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
[ Words ]
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
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