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The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in ...more

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The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is ...more

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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

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It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless effo...more

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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes ...more