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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Either Family Idiot Troublesome Usually Visit
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Fly Futter None Way
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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According Bees Country Impatient Other People Person Stinging Themselves

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