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Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way

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Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourse

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a

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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be de

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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledg

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We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

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There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as muc

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I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself,

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in th

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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we

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We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we

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We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

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