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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"The world remains ever the same."
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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
Money
"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
Death
"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
Christian
"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
Death
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
Doubt
"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it."
Art
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
Architecture
"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
God
"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
Virtue
"Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning."
Life
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