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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

We carry Within us Wonders Seek
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Life Shadow Death Souls
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Let age Envy Draw wrinkles Cheeks
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Rough diamonds Mistaken Worthless pebbles
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I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Happiest man Alive Convert poverty Riches
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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Death Cure All diseases
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

The power Weakest man Take away Life
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Men live Reason Sovereignty Humor
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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Believe Possibilities Faith Philosophy
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Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Life Pure flame Live Invisible sun
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All things Artificial Nature God
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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Reason Rebel Faith Passion
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Blind Not fortune
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Man Possession Truth Forced
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Be able Alone Advantage Solitude
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Be charitable Wealth Covetous
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I make not therefore my head a grave, but a treasure, of knowledge; I intend no Monopoly, but a community, in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Head Grave Treasure Monopoly
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Approach Temple Science Soul
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The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.

Created world Parenthesis Relating Life span
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This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death

Reasonable moderator Justice Death
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Those who happily defaced the Bilboard of the despised opposition a year ago,are angrily burning the billboard of their favorites a year after.

Happily Billboard Opposition Defaced
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Whenever the Bandits Kills, we see the evidence of their dastardly and cruel acts; Whenever you kill the Bandits, let’s see the evidence of your courageous and heroic acts.

Bandits Kill Evidence Cruel act
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Peaceful protesters don’t come or move with looters, they meet them in the streets.

Peaceful Protesters Looters Street
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There are two people guilty of the cruelty of rape; the rapist and the society that stigmatizes the victims of rape.

Guilty Rape The rapist Society
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When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

The world Draped Mantle Night
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Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

Freedom Educated people Slave English
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Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
Morality Matter Money Poor people
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The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Last Learn Gossip Parties concerned
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The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

The doer When Receiver Is ready
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Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

Your principle See everything Say nothing World changes
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Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of this wilderness?’ It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words: ‘Alas, Alas!

One through Ruined city Lonely bird
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Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.

Consciousness Bad An essentials Prerequisite
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But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end

Big people Illness Sound big Simple shutting
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When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

Have counted Eighty years Time Fate
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We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.

Nature Empty stomach Produce illusions Grandeur
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind When just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs.

So many Gods Creeds Many paths
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Little mother of ancient days: Thou hast cunningly dyed thy hair but consider That thy bent back will never be straight!

Little mother Ancient days Hair Consider
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Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

Men Have Many faults Women
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In the absence of men all women are chaste.

Absence Men Women Are chaste
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Under the circumstances the only honest answer an intelligent person can give to the question ‘Is there a God?’ is to say, ‘I do not know.

Circumstance Honest answer Intelligent Question
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The eye hath ruined me,’ the heart complained. ‘The heart has lost me,’ the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.

Ruined me Heart complained Eye replied
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The disappearance of Charles Taylor from Nigerian soil is a humiliating disgrace to Nigeria. Obasanjo must explain why this happened.

Disappearance Charles Taylor Nigerian Obasanjo
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There is nothing new in the speech. It is the same old wine in new bottles. It's a disappointing statement. In fact it is a disastrous speech.

Speech Old wine New bottle Disappointing
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I'm not surprised at this result, I'm saddened, not surprised. This government will do anything to keep its power by deceiving the people.

Saddened Not surprised Government Power
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This is incredible. This is fantastic. This gives us hope that something good will begin to happen soon.

Incredible Fantastic Something good Hope
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Choose your love. Love your choice.

Choose Your love Choice
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The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.

The past Behind Learn The future
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Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.

Save something Special occasion Every day Life
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When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

Treat people They are Remain Treat them
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Remember who you are and what God expects you to become

Remember Who You are God expects
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