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You can't love a man till you've had a baby with him.
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Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
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If you have a deadly fruit to give, it will not grow sweeter by keeping.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.
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Greatness is to take the common things of life, and walk truly among them.
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Sin looks much more terrible to those who look at it than to those who do it.
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We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.
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God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.'
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
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There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
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They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.
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I think if I was dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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There never was a man who said one word for woman but he said two for man and three for the whole human race.
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.
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If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purified, and brought into use again.
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This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
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For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
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Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
March 24, 1855
Died:
December 11, 1920
(aged 65)
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