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“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.”
“It is not in a person's nature to desire what he already has.”
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”
“Men are unequal in all their relations with the things of this world, without exception.”
“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”
“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.”
“The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.”
“Iago's soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!”
“There is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of reflection.”
“Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud — We in ourselves rejoice!”
“O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.”
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live.”
“Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.”
“Love them for what they are; nor love them less, Because to thee they are not what they were.”