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Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

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The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, 'O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'

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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

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All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was 1.

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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

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Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

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It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

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The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

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There never were two opinions alike in all the world, no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.

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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method and discipline.

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Philosophy is doubt.

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

- Montaigne | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.

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When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

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The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

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I quote others in order to better express my own self.

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The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.

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