Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
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Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
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