“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”
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One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
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The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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