The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.Henry David Thoreau
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
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