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Vote:   | A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. |
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Vote: | A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. |
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Vote: | Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. |
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Vote: | As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. |
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Vote: | Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking-can. |
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Vote: | Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. |
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Vote: | Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. |
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Vote: | Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. |
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Vote: | Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. |
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Vote: | Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. |
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Vote: | False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. |
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Vote: | Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. |
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Vote: | Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. |
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Vote: | Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. |
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Vote: | Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. |
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Vote: | In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. |
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Vote: | In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. |
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Vote: | It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. |
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Vote: | It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. |
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Vote: | Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. |
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Vote: | Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. |
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Vote: | Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. |
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Vote: | Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. |
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Vote: | Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. |
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Vote: | Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. |
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Vote: | No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. |
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Vote: | Our first and last love is self-love. |
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Vote: | Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. |
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Vote: | Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. |
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Vote: | Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. |
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Vote: | Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. |
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Vote: | Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. |
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Vote: | The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. |
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Vote: | The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god. |
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Vote: | The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. |
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Vote: | The great artist is a slave to his ideals. |
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Vote: | The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. |
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Vote: | The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. |
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Vote: | The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. |
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Vote: | There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. |
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Vote: | They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. |
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Vote: | Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. |
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Vote: | We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. |
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Vote: | We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. |
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Vote: | We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. |
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Vote: | When all else is lost, the future still remains. |
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Vote: | Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. |