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On Friendship:
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity
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On Mind:
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul
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On Talk:
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard
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On Character:
I see and approve better things, I follow the worse
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On Conquest:
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must
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On Happiness:
Before he is dead and buried no one ought to be called happy
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On Habit:
Pursuits become habits
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On Joy:
Every delay that postpones our joys, is long
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On Crime:
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature
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On Believe:
We are slow to believe what if believed would hurt our feelings
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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