Stand close around,ye Stygian set, With Dirce in one boat convey'd,...
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Consult duty not events.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
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We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear;
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For, surely, surely, where Your voice and graces are, Nothing of death can any feel or know.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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