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"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
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"It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker."

"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."

"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."

"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"
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"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."


"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"


"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."


"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."


"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."


"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
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