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We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.