Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

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Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

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It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word.

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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

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