"Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."

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"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."

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"Chance generally favors the prudent."

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"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."

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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."

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"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."

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"We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible."

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"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

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"There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray."

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"Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."

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"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

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"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."

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"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

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"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."

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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

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"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."

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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate."

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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."

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"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

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"Ornaments were invented by modesty."

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"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another."

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"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."

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"Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."

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