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house ruins towns
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
exhausted abstract remains
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
money riches wealth
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
literature enchantment kind
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
heart exercise equality
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
fate blood political
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
opposites way literature
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
men race touching
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
father men bakers
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
lying greatest-fear anticipation
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
seeking
While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
love poetry expansion
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God
book reading
Reading brings us unknown friends
night mad spy
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life