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"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."

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"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams."

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"What we cannot bear removes us from life, what remains can be borne."

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"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power."

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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

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"The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure."

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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."

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"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."

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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

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"III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves."

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