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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Joseph Conrad

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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End Serene Simplicity Social Soul
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Capability Man Mindset
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Art Imagination Invention Life Master
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Goal Man Myself Peace
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Accident Strength Weakness Yourself
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Born Earth Fate Goodness People Wait
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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Audacity Belief Character Essence Expression Life Man Safety Surround
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Art Belief Escape Knowledge Man Quite Shadow Understand
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Face Hard Time Inspirational Way
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
We can never cease to be ourselves.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Enemy Friendship Greatness Word
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Art Life Long Short Success
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Darkness Himself Power
I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Chance Discover Reality Work Yourself
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRAD

Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing

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