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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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