The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
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What sunk me very low was the sensation that I was precisely as when in wretched low spirits thirty years ago, without any addition to my char...
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Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man , Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair .
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I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the rope having fi...
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
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Friendship,
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I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
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We should be careful never to imagine, that the wedding-day is the burial of love, but that in reality love then begins its best life; and if ...
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What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.
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I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their ...
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My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would ...
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BOSWELL ' ... Is not the fear of death natural to man?' JOHNSON. 'So much so, Sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thought of i...
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I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Having found a large dead cat so heavy that he could not move it after several efforts, 'Come,' said he, (throwing down the pole,) 'you shall ...
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.
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The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.
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I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-subjects in t...
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But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.'
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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
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More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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BOSWELL " ... Is not the fear of death natural to man?" JOHNSON. "So much so, Sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thought of i...
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