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" There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. "

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Difference

Man

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" We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. "

" We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "

" I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. "

" No young man ever thinks he shall die. "

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Die

Man

" There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. "

" He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. "

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

" If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. "

" Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. "

" Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. "

" A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. "

" We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. "

" We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. "

" The more we do, the more we can do. "

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Motivational

" Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. "

" Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. "

" Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. "

" Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. "

" The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. "

" A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. "

" I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. "

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Talk

Better

" The public have neither shame or gratitude. "

" Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. "

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Friends

Ready

" Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. "

" If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. "

" Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. "

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Secrets

Souls

" Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. "

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Stomach

Old

" We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. "