The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Honor
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Subject:
Success
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Subject:
Friendship
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Subject:
Patriotism
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Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
Subject:
Character
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Subject:
Life
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Subject:
Life
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Subject:
Nature
Books
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Subject:
Life
Work: Society and Solitude
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Subject:
Life
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Subject:
Taxes
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
Subject:
Life
Work: Society and Solitude (1870)
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He builded better than he knew; the conscious stone to beauty grew.
Subject:
Beauty
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Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Subject:
Confidence
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Be an opener of doors.
Subject:
Opportunity
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Subject:
Money
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
Subject:
Money
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Subject:
Beauty
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
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Quotations
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The world belongs to the energetic.
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Character
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