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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than... →
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often... →
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar... →
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use... →
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