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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?


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To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.



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It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.



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How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!



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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.



Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.



How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.



There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.



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The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.



Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.





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I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.




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Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.



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I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what Berkshire Hathaway is doing? Why isn't that a better deal for America?




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