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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
Whole World Series Miracles
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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Everything Look Fairy Story
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To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Use World Happy
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Empty Devil Hell Here
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Acts Ages Being Entrance
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

Death Faster Wind Returns
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Curse Fly God Heaven
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It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!
Egg Matter Born Duck
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My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

Life Work Best Illustration
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Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

Brave Solder Fear Death
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You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.

You Dreamer Misfortune
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But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

Earth Gives Best Offer
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I only appear to be dead.

Appear Dead
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
Course Did Love Never
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Before Cowards Death Taste
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Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.

Never Danced Beautifully Sharp
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Fool Himself Knows Man
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Traveling Expands Mind Rarely
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Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Some Created Beauty Use
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Better Given Good Love
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Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!

Almighty God Sheerest Fate
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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Above Conditions Govern Stars
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In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

Days Moses Prophets Counted
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Attempt Doubts Fearing Good
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Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!

Now Casks Butter People
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He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;

How Glad Suffered Sorrow
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Born Duck-yard Matter Hatched
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When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now...

Get End Story Know
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
People Children Walk Keep
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She was so young that love was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette was only nineteen years old.

Young Love Still Clever
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Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.

Feet Tender Cut Knives
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I will fly to those royal birds,
Fly Royal Birds
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A human life is a story told by God.

Human Life Story God
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Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.

Near Go Wonderful Things
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Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;

Grant Prayers Contrary Times
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Push it myself.

Push Next Wealth Delightful
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Action Admirable God Angel
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Bleed Die Laugh Poison
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There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

King Son Nobody Many
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Adversity Precious Head Jewel
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He reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first

Poor Cottage Seemed Ready
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Candle Deed Far Good
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
Great Little Right Wrong
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Born Come Cry Fools
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The heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible
Heart See Clearly Essential
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kin Makes Nature Touch
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If music be the food of love, play on.

Food Love Music Play
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Ear Every Voice Few
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Country Die Enough Fewer
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Ambitious Dream Merely Shadow
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