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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Something Posterity Fain
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover

Human life Friendship Enjoyment Discover
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Misery Nature Evil Temper
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Man Believes Virtue Truth
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Question Pleasures Life Happy
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Sunshine Smiles Humanity Life's
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures

Blessings Pains Losses Patience
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Important Difficult Mind Master
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Question Cured Loved
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Gossip Claims Like Enjoys
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Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Grief Violence Form Apathy
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Writing Lost Truth Mind
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Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.
Faith Moves mountain Knowledge Right place
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Death Act Lady
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

Aim Argument Victory Progress
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

Words Polish Ideas
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We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Convince Arguments Persuade Own
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Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Living Life Requires
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

Stupid People Abuse Privilege
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Heroes Make History
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I did take the blows of life, but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

Life Dignity Love Humanity
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well

Life Holding Cards Playing
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Sucess Blunders Making Second time
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Reason Mistakes Conscience
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Learning Libraries Wisdom Everywhere
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Music Charm Soothe Beast
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I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

Heart broken Fun Someone
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Love Idealist Rebel Lives
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I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

Found Work Get back Gift
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Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

Men Self-made Wife Children
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Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Light Hopeful heart Expect Worst
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Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Hating Spitting You
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Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Mind Imagines Eye See
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end

Time Fixed Forgotten Misery
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Writing Loneliness Privacy Freedom
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Original Primary Gender Imitation
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Masculine Feminine Roles Socially
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Love Feeling History Vision
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Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Etiquette Defenseless Rudeness World
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Hypocrisy Social Sin Virtue
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Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Life Passions Years Reading
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I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Live Money Love
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Whispered Heart Kissed Soul
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The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
Treasures Invisible Heart
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Brave Human Laws Natural
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Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Science Mistakes Lead Truth
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

War Destroy Peace Man
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite

Existence Love Emotion Living
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It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Answer Enlightens Question
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Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Writing Breathing Learn Point
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