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Friends
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Genius
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
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Goals
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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Goodness
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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Habits
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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Happiness
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
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Hope
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Humanity
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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Humor
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
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Insanity
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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Intelligence
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Wit is educated insolence.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Justice
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Knowledge
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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