People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

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Verses Why Burnt

HOW many verses have I thrown
Into the fire because the one
Peculiar word, the wanted most,
Was irrecoverably lost!

poem by Walter Savage Landor
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

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