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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.