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"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state."
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Personal Development
"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."
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Personal Development
"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"
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Personal Development
"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."
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Personal Development
"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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Personal Development
"I dote on his very absence."
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Personal Development
"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."
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Personal Development
"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation."
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Personal Development
"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."
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"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
Life
"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
Friendship
"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."
Virtue
"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."
Exercise
"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
Friendship
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
Love
"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one."
Love
"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
Friendship
"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
Courage
"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."
Gratitude
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