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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

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Dreamthorp: a book of essays written in the country (1863) pg. 174

This quote comes from an essay titled "On the Importance of a Man to Himself." One of the preceding lines reads, "There is no happiness in the world in which love does not enter."

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"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."

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"I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander."

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"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."

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"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."

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"A great man is the man who does something for the first time."

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"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for."

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