“I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.”
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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