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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines
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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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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
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Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.
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Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news, or eating from the same dish.
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To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.