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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide

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