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It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
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In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
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A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?
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Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.
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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
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Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.
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It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
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When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle when you talk to the ignorant, brag when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
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Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
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He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
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The bold sympathize with the bold and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.
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Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.
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You speak As one who fed on poetry.
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And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
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Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
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