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| There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. |
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| There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. |
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| There is nothing of which men are so fond, and withal so careless, as life |
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| They that have lived a single day have lived an age. |
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| This great misfortune / to be incapable of solitude. |
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| Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity |
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| To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. |
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| To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else |
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| Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings |
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| Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty |
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| We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. |
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| We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. |
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| We come too late to say anything which has not been said already |
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| We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death |
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| We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all |
| Happiness |
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| We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it |
| Faults; Men |
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| We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice |
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| We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. |
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| When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman |
| Books; Feelings |
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