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Amos Alcott
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm
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Samuel Johnson
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good
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Honor� de Balzac
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence
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Fran�ois La Rochefoucauld
Taste may change, but inclination ne
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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."
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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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