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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear

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