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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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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is…
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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
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Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects…
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The swiftest horse can't overtake a word once spoken
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Look forward; envision the beautiful blessings waiting for you on a distant shores. Follow your dreams with joy, love, faith and gratitude,for…
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