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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
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Thrift is of great revenue.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.