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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.

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We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself

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