A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
Music is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what revery is to thought, what the fluid is to the liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
Close by the rights of man, at the least set beside them, are the rights of the spirit.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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You have created a new thrill.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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