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If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

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Those who don

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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

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We shape our buildings and they shape us.

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I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

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Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

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