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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.



Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.



Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.



Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.



Water is the only drink for a wise man.



The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.



Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.



Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.



Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.



To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.



We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.



Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.



We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.



Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality



There is no remedy for love but to love more.







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