"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."

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"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

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"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch."

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"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

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"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

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"And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were."

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"As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination."

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"Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet."

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"Good and bad men are less than they seem."

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"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."

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"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all."

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"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."

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"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor."

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"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."

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"The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."

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"Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love."

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"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

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"To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning."

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"Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face."

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"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."

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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

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"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."

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"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."

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"What comes from the heart, goes to the heart."

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