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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
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You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
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You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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“If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
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Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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