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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.
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Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
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Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
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And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
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Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
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Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it name once lost you cannot get again.
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We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.
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I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
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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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Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
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In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
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Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
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Keep unscathed the good name keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?
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