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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.
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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from…
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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
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Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
— Gautama Buddha
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Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
— Marcus Aurelius
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning…
— Epictetus
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
— Alexander Smith
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But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again…
— Gautama Buddha
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