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It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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Life is a search after power.

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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

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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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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

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A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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Genius is intellect constructive.

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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

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The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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