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There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.
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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare.
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Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
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Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.
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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring.
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Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
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I respect the skunk as a human being in a very humble sphere.
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Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.
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Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.
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I seek acquaintance with Nature to know her moods and manners.
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We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
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The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.
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I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
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No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
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The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
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There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
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I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
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Born:
July 12, 1817
Died:
May 6, 1862
(aged 44)
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