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"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
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"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world."
Lincoln, Abraham on Property
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"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
Hemans, Felicia D. on Affliction
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"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."
Smith, Logan Pearsall on Acquaintance
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"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
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"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered."
Smith, Logan Pearsall on Generations
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"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 Enjoyment
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"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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"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
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"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation."
Smith, Logan Pearsall on Decay
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"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."
Cibber, Colley 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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"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 mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."
Maurois, Andre on Affection
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I'm male from the United States and made my book on 31st March 2008.
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I like things and stuff.
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I am by turns a news editor; an amateur musician (pastoral drones a specialty) and evolutionary biologist (I <3 ants); and a fiend for rivers and oceans.

