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Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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