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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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