The brave man is not he who feels no fear, / For that were stupid and irrational; / But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, / And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
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In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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O heaven! were man / But constant, he were perfect.
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'Tis Education forms the common mind, / Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd.
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He can run, but he can't hide.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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Absence, that common cure of love.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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It is excellent / To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant.
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The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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Spring makes everything young again, save man.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
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The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry / Of bugles going by. / And my lonely spirit thrills / To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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