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A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
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It was the last weakness he meant to indulge in; and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
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In contemplating thyself never include the vessel which surrounds thee, and these instruments which are attached about it. For they are like an ax, differing only in this, that they grow to the body. For indeed there is no more use in these parts without the cause which moves and checks them than in the weaver's shuttle, and the writer's pen, and the driver's whip.
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I hate myself in interviews. All of a sudden, you stop and you're like, 'Chris, how dare you? ' I don't live in Darfur. I have both legs. But you can't walk around all the time being like, 'I'm so grateful I'm not in Darfur. '
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
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That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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