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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Adversity Escape Remember Suffering
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Bright Cleaning Sorrow Soul
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Effort Happiness Reading Writing
Truth allows no choice.
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Choice One Liner Truth
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Fools Himself Influence Power Worry
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Conscience Deep Fear God Man Rise Shame Wisdom
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Advice Need Welcome
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Law Nature Power Wisdom Woman
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Goodness Measurement Treat True
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Kindness Ourselves Power
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Determination Diligence Greatness Impossible Performance Perservance Skills Strength Work
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Goodness Greatness Himself Wait
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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