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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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Personal Development
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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Personal Development
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"A human being is only breath and shadow."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
Emotional
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
Influence
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
Music
"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."
Truth
"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
Courage
"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
Politics
"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
Friendship
"Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit."
Being
"In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it."
Love
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."
Doubt
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