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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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To know music is to transfer it to life.

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Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.

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Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

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So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

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He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

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Passions are the gales of life.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

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Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

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Lady, for indeed I loved you and I deemed you beautiful, I cannot brook to see your beauty marred Through evil spite: and if ye love me not, I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn: I had liefer ye were worthy of my love, Than to be loved again of you - farewell; And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love, Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.

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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

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The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight -disappointment and defeat- become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

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