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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

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We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

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