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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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Amazingly, I think that a lot of times athletes are - are kind of in a position where other think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
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I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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