A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Friendship   
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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.
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Grief   
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The years teach much which the days never knew.
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Experience   
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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War   
Politics   
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Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
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Wisdom   
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Wisdom   
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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
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Food   
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They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear   
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Genius   
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Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Subject:
Friendship   
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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
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Talent   
Mankind   
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Art   
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Life   
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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Americans   
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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
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Art   
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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.
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Patriotism   
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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Success   
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Honor   
Work:
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse.
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Education   
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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Progress   
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