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    Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

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    A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

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    A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

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    Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

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    As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

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    A scholar knows no boredom.

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    A sky full of silent suns.

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    As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

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    A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

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    A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

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    A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

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    Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

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    Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

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    Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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    Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

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    Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

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    Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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    Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

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    Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

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    Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

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    feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

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    Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

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    For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

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    For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.

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    For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers.

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    God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

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    Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

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    Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

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    He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

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    How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

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    Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

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    If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

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    I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

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    Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

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    In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

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    In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

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    In women everything is heart, even the head.

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    It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten.

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    It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

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    It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

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    It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

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    It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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    Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

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    I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

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    Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages

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    Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

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    Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

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    Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

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    Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

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    Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.