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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their ha...more

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All mankind love a lover.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

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Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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Love, and you shall be loved.

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To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endur...more

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind thos...more

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...more

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality...more