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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
All rising to Great Place is by a winding stair.
It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
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