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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

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