"Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep."
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"An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you."
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"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it."
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"Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one."
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"Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march."
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"Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds."
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"Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it."
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"History: gossip well told."
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"No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it."
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"Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it."
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"Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown"
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"Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist."
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"Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion."
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"A form of self-delusion."
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"Life is a movement outward, an unfolding."
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"The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel."
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"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory."
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"Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well."
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"In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption."
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"Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of."
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