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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
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'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
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... a woman... told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I just keep showing up for my life. Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.
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... imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.
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A 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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