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"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything."
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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."


"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."


"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."


"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."
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