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One idea lights a thousand candles.
We may be partial, but Fate is not.
Humility is the secret of the wise.
The hero is suffered to be himself.
Wise men are not wise at all times.
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.
Every time you wink the stars move.
A man's library is a sort of harem.
Sorrow makes us all children again.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
All diseases run into one, old age.
The dearest events are summer-rain.
Isolation must precede true society.
The key to every man is his thought.
A moment is a concentrated eternity.
The instinct of the people is right.
Society does not love its unmaskers.
We change whether we like it or not.
Education should be as broad as man.
When it's dark enough men see stars.
Meek young men grow up in libraries.
Under every deep a lower deep opens.
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
People say law but they mean wealth.
What we call results are beginnings.
Imitation cannot go above its model.
Beauty without expression is boring.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Language is the archives of history.
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
Our expenses are all for conformity.
Books are for nothing but to inspire
There is no history; only biography.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Only to youth will spring be spring.
The finest wits have their sediment.
Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark
Music causes us to think eloquently.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Life is to be lived, not controlled.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
My giant goes with me wherever I go.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
No one suspects the days to be gods.
Do your thing, and I shall know you.
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Thought makes everything fit for use.