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There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

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As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

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We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

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To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

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There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

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There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

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We are rich only through what we give.

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