"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

Lincoln, Abraham on vice
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded."

Lincoln, Abraham on public   

"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world."

Lincoln, Abraham on property   

"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."

Hemans, Felicia D. on affliction
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"Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on books - reading   

"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on acquaintance   

"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on acquaintance
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"If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on leisure
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"What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?"

Smith, Logan Pearsall on joy   

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on goals
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"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on generations   

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

Lincoln, Abraham on joy   

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Lincoln, Abraham on faces
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Lincoln, Abraham on happiness
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"Whatever you are, be a good one."

Lincoln, Abraham on greatness
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"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on fools and foolishness
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on feelings
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Lincoln, Abraham on failure
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"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on friends and friendship   

"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on decay   

"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

Cibber, Colley on absence
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."

Williams, Tennessee on loneliness
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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on loneliness
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"Of my friends I am the only one left."

Terence on loneliness
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"Loneliness breaks the spirit."

Proverb, Jewish on loneliness
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"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

Newton, Joseph Fort on loneliness
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"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."

Hammarskjold, Dag on loneliness
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

Carlyle, Thomas on loneliness
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on absence
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on affection
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"A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."

Maurois, Andre on affection   

"Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope."

Hunt, Leigh on affection
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