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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the read more
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that read more
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].
I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of read more
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that read more
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.