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Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
[ Prophecy ]
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
[ Abstinence ]
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
[ Wives ]
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
[ Conscience ]
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
[ Professions and Professionals ]
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
[ Conquest ]
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
[ Language ]
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
[ Women ]
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
[ Perfection ]
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
[ Purpose ]
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
[ Failure ]
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The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
[ Duty ]
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
[ Growth ]
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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
[ Privacy ]
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
[ Pride ]
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
[ Failure ]
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Those who trust us educate us.
[ Education ]
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
[ Vanity ]
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
[ Compassion ]
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
[ Reality ]
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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
[ Life and Living ]
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
[ Suspicion ]
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
[ Purpose ]
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
[ Men and Women ]
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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
[ Forgiveness ]
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
[ Eloquence ]
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