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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
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Men do less than they ought unless they do all that they can.
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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Men of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
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Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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