Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858)
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

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There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

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If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

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Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

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Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

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