Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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