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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is…
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else…
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…
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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück,…
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his…
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him…
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I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been…
— John Kennedy Toole
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For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to…
— John Locke
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Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock…
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