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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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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities,…
— Albert Camus
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and…
— John Macmurray
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to…
— Marcel Proust
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Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
— Owen Feltham
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
— John Webster
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