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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
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Water is the driving force of all nature.
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.