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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Badness Spoiled Goodness Bad
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Help Distress Lighten Own
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Because Came Could Deliberately
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Anxiety Infinite Leisure Moments
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I married beneath me. All women do.

I Married Beneath Women
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Bear Closest Eye Her
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It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

Happen First Instant But
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Consumes Fatal Getting Greater
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Bring Any Choose Except
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If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

If We Give Treasure
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True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

True Literature More Than
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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Determines Fate Himself His
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Afford Alone Man Number
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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Cherish Deeply Integral Interest
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I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

Believe That Victories Defeats
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Better Faith Fruit Happiness
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Grateful Perpetual Thanksgiving Have
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Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

Actually Other Way Round
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Bald Before Being Citizen
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Best Composition Goes Luck
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Beware Clothes Enterprises New
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Alone Another Goes Man
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Compensation Disappointment Enough Every
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The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

Snow Reminded Me Beauty
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Alive Better Creature Dead
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All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

All Great Master Work
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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Also Good Must Only
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Confirmed Desperation Lead Lives
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Earth Intelligence Leaves Mould
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We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.
We Fall Love More
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

After Fish Fishing Knowing
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The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.

Real Choice We Have
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Crowded Cushion Myself Pumpkin
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Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Morality Probably Last Thing
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Blessing Day Walk Whole
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Affect Arts Day Highest
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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Charm Cheerful Great Personal
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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Aim Choice Desire Doing
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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Declaration First Independence Interdependence
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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Bravely Cheerfully Faithfully Immortality
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Bound Critic Dismal Every
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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Friend Heart Needs Time
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Courage Fire Genius Set
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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Agreeable Always Best Greatest
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Best Birds Except Possess
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Express Feeling Following Gratitude
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When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

When Die Something Comes
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Always Envy Happiness Lasts
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Agree Couples Discordant Things
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Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Satan Always Tempt Others
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