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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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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Advances Common Confidently Direction
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Air Built Castles Foundations
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The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

The Gap Between Compassion
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Answer Asked Attended Compliment
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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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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Writer Someone Spends Years
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Because Companions Desperate Different
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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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Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

Colour Touch Eye Music
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Happiness Accident Nature Beautiful
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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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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Appears Both Cannot Deep
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Confirmed Desperation Lead Lives
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The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

Urbanized Life Lead Destruction
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We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.
We Fall Love More
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

Biking Passion Aside Enjoy
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Begin Lost Ourselves Understand
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

True Art Genuine Virtuosity
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Laws Life Poverty Simpler
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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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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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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 peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Depends Fear Nothing Peace
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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Depend Does Happiness Inward
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Belong Death Forever Found
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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Character Created Day Develop
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
Does Learning Much Teach
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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Every Friendship Hearts Themselves
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Humility Dependence Pride God
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Better Harmony Hidden Obvious
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

Modern Man Long Preached
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Before Sin Satan Assures
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

Most Like Look Inside
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Assistance Greek Libraries Little
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

You Want Happy Ending
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Against Contend Cost Desire
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Create Own Visual Style
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Woman Get Angry Man
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

About Details Know Learn
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

When Child Given His
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Evening Hide Ignorance Our
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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Advertising Tries Stimulate Sensuous
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