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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
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But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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Everybody likes to go their own way � to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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
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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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