Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.Thomas Carlyle
Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole man.
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war it's a mutual hostility.
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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