To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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