All diseases run into one, old age.
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Age   
Health   
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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
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Nature   
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Friendship   
Success   
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Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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Art   
Jealousy   
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Death   
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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
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Reality   
Truth   
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Opportunity   
World   
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
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Anger   
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Effort   
Enthusiasm   
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Choice   
Truth   
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Work   
Worries   
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
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Education   
Books   
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Ambition   
Success   
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Mankind   
Thinking   
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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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Books   
Reading   
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Parents   
Mother   
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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Facts   
Spiritual   
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Laws   
Good   
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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Common Sense   
Poverty   
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
Subject:
Friendship   
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