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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

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the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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One should not run on a new road.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
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politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
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