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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it…
— James Buchan
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't…
— Lord Byron
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Love is its own reward....
— Thomas Merton
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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
— Guy Finley
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
— John Henry Newman
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
— John Vanbrugh
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A generous action is its own reward.
— William Thomas Walsh
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Order is its own reward.
— Janet Morris
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Liberty is its own reward.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at…
— Kenneth Arrow
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Virtue is its own reward.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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