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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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