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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Imperfection Gentle Quiet Defects
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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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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Life Reading Useful Authors
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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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True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation

Compassion Existence Creature Sensation
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station

Content Good Honor Private
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness Life Love Hope
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.

Cherished World Someone Burdens
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Cheerfulness Health Mind Body
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Defense Criticism Obscurity
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Love Life Grows Soul
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Crime Contemtible World Inconsistency
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading Mind Excercise Body
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Man Consider Wants
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Health Cheerfulness Beget
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Music Good Mortals Heaven
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge Virtue Truly Raises
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion

Mind Man Power Dominion
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Artificial Intelligence Natural Stupidity
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Evil intention Perverts Actions Sins
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Riches Pride Luxury Heart
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Nature Purpose Uselessly
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
Charity Virtue Heart Hands
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We live as we dream--alone.

Live Dream Alone
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Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others

Strength Accident Weakness
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The mind of man is capable of anything.

Mind Man Capable
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear

Life Dream Fear
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law is the pretty branding instrument invented by the overfed to protect themselves against the hungry

Law Instrument Protect Hungry
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All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

Idealisation Life Beautify Destroy
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put it's trust in life!

Heart Hope Love Life
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Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.

Government Exquisite Mind
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Art Life Short Success
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

Woman Difficult Dealings Men
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Belief Evil Men Wickedness
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

Mind Capable Past Future
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Only Nothing Mistakes Suppose
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see

Task Power Hear Feel
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

Life Character Expression Belief
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Words Foes Reality
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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Judge Man Foes Friends
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility

Move Deeply Bounds Sensibility
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They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

Mind Words Dreams Nightmares
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Belief Understands Artful Self-knowledge
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

Afraid Want History Something
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Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence

Youth Insolent World Defiance
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