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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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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Angel Brains Case Clocks
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Always Arms Does Genius
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

About Always Damn Generally
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Easily Fear Gate Gates
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Achieve Answer Asking Attempting
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

About Celebrated Else Fame
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Against Anchor Drift Lie
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Always First First Time He
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Earthly Good Heavenly Minded
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every Knocks Other Out
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Another Everybody Give List
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Enthusiasm Faith Life Living
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Another Better Grow Ideas
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Accurate Insanity Logic Mind
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Blood Grow Language Out
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Action Being Being Judged He
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Hundred Hundred Times Often Original
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

About Facts Going Live
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Achievements Air Bad Fresh
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Been Commonly Great Great Men
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Art Creeds Head Raises
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Father Illusion Love Matches
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Caught Event Ever Every
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Ashamed Author Become Best
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art Beautiful Beautiful Art Essence
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Also Condemn Everything Pardon
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
After Light Rarely Sought
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Chosen Goal Many Path
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Because Evils Hope Man
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Established An Fact Interpretation
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Future Influences Just Just As Much
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Any Conscious Each Face
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Come Conscience Credibility Evidence
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Certain Character Determined Experiences
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Anything Away Cannot Either
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Be True Consistent Contradict Honestly
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friendship Lack Love Makes
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Convictions Dangerous Foes Lies
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Individual Morality Instinct Herd
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Because Cause Cease Faithful
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Brook Dozen Finds Fish
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