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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

Day Every Every Day Fight
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Most times what people don't see is the amount of work we put in to get the wins.

People Times See Work
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Fear not for pick 2 is not check up. Pick your 2 and strategize on how you are going to drop your general market or even pick 3 as the game goes on.

Fear Pick Drop Strategize
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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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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Earthly Good Heavenly Minded
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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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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Accurate Insanity Logic Mind
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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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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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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 essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art Beautiful Beautiful Art Essence
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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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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Established An Fact Interpretation
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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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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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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Able Also Enemies Friends
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Feeling Good Heightens Itself
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Create Father Good Good Father
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Conceived Great Thoughts Truly
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Alongside Art Conquest Imitation
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Breeding Features Good Good Breeding
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

About All Day Break Bubble
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Authors Blessed Chips Contrived
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Love is a beautiful thing, when you have a great queen

Love Beautiful Great Queen
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Love is a wonderful thing, when you have a great king

Love Beautiful King Queen
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Black hating black is the reason why the growth is taunt

Black Hating Reason Growth
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One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated.

Admire Against Being Christ
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What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Elite Country Oil Government
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The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.

Leader Needs Obama Peace
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The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

Biggest Oil Planet Problem
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