How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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Nature   
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
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Sports & Competition   
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
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Beauty   
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Subject:
Age   
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Subject:
Books   
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Children   
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Subject:
Intelligence   
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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Humor   
Work: Letters and Social Aims
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Then beauty is its own excuse for being.
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Beauty   
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
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Wisdom   
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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Art   
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Action   
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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Effort   
Human Nature   
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Subject:
Nature   
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Subject:
Books   
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
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Chance   
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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Manner   
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Subject:
Boredom   
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Subject:
Mankind   
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The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.
Subject:
Ego   
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