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Do Make it Better (1)
Like to a ship that storms urge on its course,/ By its own trials our soul is surer made./ The very things that make the voyage worse/ Do make it better; its peril is its aid./ And, as the storm driv...
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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
Human, All Too Human
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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