They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought…

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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Oh! blame not the bard.

Oh! blame not the bard.

They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people...

They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people...

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates...

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates...

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if...

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if...

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he...

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he...

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the...

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the...

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -...

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -...

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one...

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one...

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much...

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much...

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it,...

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it,...

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a...

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a...

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven...

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven...

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they...

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they...