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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Heart Talk Trust Voice Yourself
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Himself Man Pride Vice
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Kindness Ourselves Power
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Associate Greatness Local Man Position
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
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Object Possible Try
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Choice Freedom Solitude Wasted Time Yourself
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Conscience Funny Marriage Wife
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Books Choice Friendship
A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Growth Man Mindset Place
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Character Curiosity Intellectual Oneself
No man was ever great by imitation.
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Greatness Imitation Man One Liner
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man
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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Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Make Up Tears Weapon Woman
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity Generosity Greatness Mindset
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Effort Happiness Reading Writing
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
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Death Himself Live Man
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove

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