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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

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We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

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The poet ... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

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Relationship Quote

Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.

- Baltasar Gracian

Motivational Quote

It always seems impossible until it's done.

- Nelson Mandela

Love Quote

Love is being stupid together.

- Paul Valery

Motivational Quote

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

- Lou Holtz

Life Quote

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

- Robert Frost

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