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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.