Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine a...
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The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use t...
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I...
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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby...
