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Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
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Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
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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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There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.
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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.
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What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent they will more than supply all.
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The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.
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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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Revenge is a common passion it is the sin of the uninstructed.
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Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
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It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship pass on.
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Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.
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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
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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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Character is money and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.
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Money is a terrible blab she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
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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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There is no policy like politeness and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
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