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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
[ Wealth ]
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A man sits as many risks as he runs.
[ Risk ]
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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
[ Sin ]
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
[ Advice ]
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All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
[ Worth ]
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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
[ Money ]
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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
[ Rules ]
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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Be not simply good; be good for something.
[ Purpose ]
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
[ Honesty ]
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Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
[ Behavior ]
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Being is the great explainer.
[ Existence ]
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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
[ Truth ]
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Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
[ Caution ]
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
[ Books - Reading ]
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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
[ Tools ]
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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
[ Cities and City Life ]
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
[ Liberty ]
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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
[ Distrust ]
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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
[ Passion ]
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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
[ Morality ]
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
[ Uncategorised ]
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
[ Fame ]
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
[ Conventionality ]
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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
[ Experience ]
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
[ Self-knowledge ]
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
[ Doubt ]
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
[ Farming and Farmers ]
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Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
[ Tenderness ]
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Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
[ Goodness ]
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Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
[ Leisure ]
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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
[ Education ]
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
[ Humility ]
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
[ Home ]
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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
[ War ]
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I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
[ Company ]
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
[ Silence ]
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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
[ Solitude ]
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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
[ Letters ]
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
[ Determination ]
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I say, break the law.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
[ Egotism ]
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