There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Drive Fullness Selfishness
the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Housing Second Strife Transuilzing
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Suggestive Thousand
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Half Itself Responsibility Smiling Unmistakable
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Beggar Begging Elect Favor Forfeited
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Hardly Idea Inspiration Listening Source

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