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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
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