A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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