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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Samuel Johnson

Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Art Himself Person Photograph Work
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat
A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Growth Man Mindset Place
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity Generosity Greatness Mindset
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Goodness Greatness Himself Wait
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Choice Freedom Solitude Wasted Time Yourself
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove
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
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
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Better Choice Death Live Rich
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Bed Coward Night Sleep Thinking
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Father Freedom Independent Power Son Struggle

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