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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Hate is a kind of 'passive suffering', but indignation is a kind of joy.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
St. Francis de Sales
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
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Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.
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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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