Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.
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Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a mummy
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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