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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has…
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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well…
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I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling…
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
— Josh Billings
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather…
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
— Louise Brooks
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified…
— Warren Buffett
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing…
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