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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Advantage Bargain Discontented Excellent
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Along Articles Brings Dwarf
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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Before Flies Heart Judgment
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Ask Govern Governs Here
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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Learned May Rote Sciences
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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Holes More Occasions Other
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Absurd Argument Been Christian
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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Certainly Duties Easy Most
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
Does English Man Men
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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Death Devil Get Joy
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Add Alas Contentment Grandeur
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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Candle Certain Day Either
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Alone Any Asked Cottage
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Actions Appearance Case Compliment
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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Another Button Cause Life
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Bread Just Just As Much Light
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Drawing Faster Leaves Less
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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Beautiful Catastrophe Hundred Hundred Times
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Chest Home Living Should
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture Correct Forms Game
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The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

Passive Ironic Attitude Destructive
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture Create Function Objects
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Brains Capable Farthest Happiness
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Cruel Expected Gentleness Learned
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Admires After Centuries Conservative
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An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

Angel Body Church Created
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If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
Enjoy Going Least Something
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Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

No-One Prepared Some Some Things
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Being Believe Cease Never
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
Competent Friends Friendship Work
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Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
Any Babies Bad Dogs
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Capacity Confront Courage Imagined
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Artist Artwork Care Chance
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

Among Counted Ever Invented
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Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Did Ears Give Give Me
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Different Even He Him
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Above Before Cannot Cynicism
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Because Carries Certain Dangers
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

America Automobile Begins Chain
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
End Justifies Justify Long
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Ascent Blind Consciousness Forces
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Absolute Circumstances Conduct Depends
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Agreement Applied Blend Blow
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Art Arts Insurrection Laws
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Antagonistic Between Commitment Doubt
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It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Away Door Go Go Away
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Capacity Development Freedom Hand
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