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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

Book, Disguise, Freely, People, Reading, Works
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Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

Art, Business, Character, Tact, Veritable, Way

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Gained, Seldom, Suffering, Wisdom

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

Chair, He Man, Horrid, Illusion, Men, Terrors

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Done, Good, Loss, Self, Spiritual, Turned

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Advice, Ask, Half, Stories, Tell, Weaker
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