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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual

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