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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.
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The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
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We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
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Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding.
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The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or the place.