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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Capture Groundwork Heart Lessons
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Darkness Each Light Like
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Guides Manners Morals Others
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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Acquire Enemies Every Hundred
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God Tempers Lamb Wind
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Able Actor Create Hand
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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Eyes Get Keep Life
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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Care Enjoy Health Hoard
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Conversation Different I Think May
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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Add Brass Current Gold
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Adds Am Every Every Time
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Accomplished Acquaintance Books Brag
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People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Always Care Enjoy Enough
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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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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Companion Lay Lays Many
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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Affectionate Communication Humor Insight
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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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We see things as we are, not as they are.

See Things We see They
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Agreeing Communication Extremists Means
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Being Help Only Professional
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
Competent Friends Friendship Work
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