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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Bore Bored Contemptible Even
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Beauty Empire Give Happy
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any Fool How Know
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
Times Truth
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dew Flash Human Life
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Argument Irony Neither Sarcasm
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Down Find Full Life
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Nobody Santa Shoots
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Books Just Oldest Only
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Animals Business Enjoy Except
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Art Conclusions Drawing Insufficient
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Believe Fully Humans Important
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

First Law Nature Self-Preservation
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Bible May Nothing Truth
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Apology Books Case Devil
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Aims Enjoy Learned Life
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Anticipation Except Future Memory
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Identify Many People Problems
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Death Life Must Neither
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eventually Expectation Find Future
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Art Exact Life Science
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Anxiety Becomes Dwell Future
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Before Leap Like Look
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Because Excluded Felicity General
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Being Essence Innermost Soul
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Catch Cold Fear Lest
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Always Form Grateful Matter
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Fatal God His Own
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Accurately Becomes Destructive However
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Bona Doing Falls Ground
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Best Done Easy Forgive
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Appeal Like Logic Perish
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Abstinence Condemns Good Half
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Conviction Man Nothing Serious
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Always Company Doing Enjoy
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Common Lord Sense Shared
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Able Culture Enough First
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Else Enough Fools Knave
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Bad Cannot Does Forget
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Certain Expense Law Nothing
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Embryo Life Living Man
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Life is one long process of getting tired.

Getting Life Long Process
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Against Healthy Instinct Like
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Always Conclusions Contrary Enough
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Always Anything Architecture Else
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