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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
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes
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
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
After all, the true seeing is within.
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After Seeing True Withing
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Angel Come Golden Know Life Moment Nothing Only Part Rush See Stream Vista
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Children Know led Way
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
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Agrresive Animal Ask Criticism Friend No Pass Question Such
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Analoufge Call Dubious Egg Full Handsome Hopeful Possibilities World
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Mind Narrow Point Subject Various View
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adventure Man Outside Within
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Always Become Could Late never Person Thought
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Break Desirer Future Past Tie
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Carry Cipher Face My Poem Unwritten
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word

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