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Occupation is the armor of the soul.
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Armor
Occupation
Soul
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There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.
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Eye
Hatred
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The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.
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Men
Moments
Ruins
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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
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Dignity
Misfortunes
Redeeming
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Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.
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Arms
Binding
Companion
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Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.
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Men
Greatness
People
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A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
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Politics
Politician
Statesmen
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The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
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Hope
Golden
Shadow
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Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.
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Art
Smile
Feels
Persons
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
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Fire
Heart
Law
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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
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Force
Inevitable
Selfish
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For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.
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Friends
Wise
Beautiful
Sleep
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Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.
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Running
Animal
Weed
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There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.
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Dark
Light
Rooms
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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Art
War
Military
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Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.
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Appreciate
Departed
Sunset
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Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
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Ambition
Unhappy
Weakness
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A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.
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Men
May
Sloth
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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
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Art
Mind
Temptation
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The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.
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Forgiving
Mean
Selfish
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Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.
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Art
Smile
Indifference
Return
Rome
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The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.
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Expression
Flower
Taste
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It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.
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Christian
Gentleman
Too Much
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Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.
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Opportunity
Character
Roots
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One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.
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Men
Hands
Reflection
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Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.
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Art
Opportunity
Smile
Men
Struggle
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A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.
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Men
Greatness
Progress
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