We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in his head, a throb of pleasure in his heart, and he will be glad to share it with the first person he meets.
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The only true retirement is that of the heart the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.William Hazlitt
There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
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