Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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Love loves to love love.

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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Shut your eyes and see.

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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