If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.Oliver Wendell
Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still
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Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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