"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
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"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."
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"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."
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"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
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"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."
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"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."
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"Saints are sinners who kept on going."
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"If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
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"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
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"I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin."
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"Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck."
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"You must suffer me to go my own dark way."
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"We can only know others by ourselves."
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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go."
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"and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!"
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"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong."
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"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."
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"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."
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"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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