Do not be proud! Your thoughts are not yours alone! They live in others.

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  But in solitude their head is upright and pure above the dark mob.

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  Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

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  The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

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  There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

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  The longest way round is the shortest way home.

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  I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.

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