Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
Subject:
Character   
Possessions   
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
Subject:
Doubt   
Teaching   
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Subject:
Manner   
Patience   
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Character   
Work: Journals, 1839
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The only way to have friends is to be one.
Subject:
Friendship   
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Subject:
Action   
Human Nature   
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Subject:
Courage   
Mankind   
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
Subject:
God   
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All mankind love a lover.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Mankind   
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Subject:
Quotations   
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Subject:
Friendship   
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Subject:
Friendship   
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Work: Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Subject:
Life   
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Subject:
Kindness   
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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Subject:
Grief   
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The years teach much which the days never knew.
Subject:
Experience   
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Subject:
Capitalism   
Good   
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Reality is a sliding door.
Subject:
Reality   
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Subject:
Encouragement   
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