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

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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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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

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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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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind thos...more

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitud...more

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your...more

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality...more

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A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

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There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though th...more