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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Seneca the Younger

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other

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