Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
People must help one another it is nature's law.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Youth has no age.
Why should poetry have to make sense?
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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