"Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry."

Work, Circumstances, Laws, Man

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"Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry."

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"There is no influence like the influence of habit."

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"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living."

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"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."

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"But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave."

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"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."

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"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."

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"He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever."

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"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."

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"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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