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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.
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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!