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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their ha...more

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, o...more

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

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All mankind love a lover.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

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Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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Hitch your wagon to a star.

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own ...more

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Love, and you shall be loved.

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To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endur...more

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose fa...more