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"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
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"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
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"The sun - my almighty physician."
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"At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it."
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"For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood."
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"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
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"Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense."
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"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."
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"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."
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"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
People
"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
Love
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
Circumstance
"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
Man
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
Help
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
Life
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
Wisdom
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
Art
"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
Nature
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
Life
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