Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPECharm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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This long disease, my life.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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