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He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorro...

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You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and...

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When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bri...

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To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not...

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished i...

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Harry TurtledoveAtlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes ...

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Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing whe...

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Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

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C. S. LewisOn Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.