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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Things do not change we change.
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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That government is best which governs least.
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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.