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"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
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"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
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"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."
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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
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"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
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"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."
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"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?"
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"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."
Education

"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
Friendship

"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
Life

"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom."
Life

"To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive."
Love

"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."
Rhetoric

"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
Government

"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
Liberty

"The law always limits every power it gives."
Power

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
Trust
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