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As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets. - [Friendship] It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. - [Extremes] It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. - [Ladies] Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity. - [Christ] Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome. - [Man] The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. - [Anticipation] The crown of creation. - [Women] The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars, and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self. - [Pretension] The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished. - [Love] The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms. - [Revolution] Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts. - [Castles in the Air] What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned. - [Resignation] Whoever perseveres will be crowned. - [Perseverance]
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