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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Glow Good Heart Learned
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Ask Brave Cause Country
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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Brother Dear Friend Quite
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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Heart Known Still Than
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Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
Bodies Friends Inspired Soul
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Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

Compare Friend Nothing Sane
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Best Empty Left Unsaid
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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Beauty Rare Wisdom Youth
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Patient Perform Resolve Wise
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Charity Others Precious Trifle
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Fear Friend Great Intimate
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Advantage Converts Everything Favorites
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People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
About Always Complain Memories
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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

Affect Easily Faults Forgive
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Away Being Constant Continue
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Annoy Cannot Often Pardon
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Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Good Good Things New Nothing
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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

First Kept Long Lover
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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

From Different We Others
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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Again Ambition From Back
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

After Because Hidden Like
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Achievements Apt Chance Design
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Alone Both Cannot Concur
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Criticism Deceives Few Few People
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Buildings Like People Personalities
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If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Bottom Free Heart Hidden
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Assistance Bearing Cutting Feel
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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Being Birth Bounds Capable
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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Because Call Exercise Fond
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Always Concern Friends Good
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Dishonor Does Man More
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Folly He Lives Thinks
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Blood Change Great Habit
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Altogether Come Despite Experience
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Apply Become Commonly Great
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The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Cruel Force Hands Loved
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Does Little Make Say
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Actions Best Blush Did
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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Fortunes Judging Know Men
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Absolute Bred Ceases Certainties
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Deserves Generally Goodness His
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Ourselves Outward Peace Seek
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
Crazy Die Live May
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Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Addict Ask Because Gambling
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Imagination Learned Long Much
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Gets Going Pro Turn
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Advocate Alcohol Always Anyone
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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Edge Explain Gone Honest
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Counsel Easily Fool Foolish
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