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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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The first wealth is health.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.