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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Because Chiefly Ever Expecting
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Brute Directly Fidelity Frequent
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

An Imagination Led Mob
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Been Me Passion Poetry
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Beautiful Contemplation Derived Intense
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About Against Argument Charity
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Admire Critic Fire Generous
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Anything Forget Make Note
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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

Cigarette General He Me
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Death Most
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I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Asleep Blind Blind Man Day
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Always Arise Experience Irrelevant
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Begins Best Boundaries Death
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

According Between Desires Every
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Away Children Extinction Fought
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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Because Great Growth Human
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Around Barriers Constraints Erect
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The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Belong Belongs Brave Future
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

American Future Inspiration Like
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ability Absence Conflict Handle
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Reality Times Best Escape
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Alive Die He Life
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Nations Main Campaign Long
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Concentrated Energy Essence Real
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Virtuous Person Mean Mind
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Counsel Despair Determination Diligence
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Attempted Ever First Must
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
First Great Requisite Self-Confidence
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
About Carelessness Falsehood Intentionally
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Brings Down Family Idea
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Art Best Casts Certain
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Art Attention Memory True
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Conversation Does Had He
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Long Punish Wish Unwise
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Admiration Charms Distant Made
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Cannot Life Reciprocal Society
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Food Art Consumed Dish
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Advance Always Eye Know
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Choice Life Accept Action
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Good He Him Inclination
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

Know Only Other Pieces
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Away Caused Just Laughter
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Different Manner Might Much
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Idea Once Only People
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