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We figure to ourselves
The thing we like; and then we build it up,
As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,—
For thought is tired of wandering o’er the world,
And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

— Henry Taylor Philip van Artevelde (1834)

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The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

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An unreflected light did never yet
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

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He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

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