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The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
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Artistic
Done
Wells
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Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.
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Desks
Thrive
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We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.
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Childhood
Children
Two
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The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
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Ability
Argument
Power Of Music
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One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
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Hundred
Shallow
Talent
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Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
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Chance
Men
Ridiculous
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The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
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Failure
Disappointment
Spirit
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The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.
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Too Much
Want
Way
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Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.
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Criminals
Fraud
Opportunist
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Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.
William Matthews / Poet
Mind
Moments
Succeed
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Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.
William Matthews / Poet
Men
Book
Talking
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What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
William Matthews / Poet
Progress
Steps
Understanding
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The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
William Matthews / Poet
Blessing
Gratitude
Self
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It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.
William Matthews / Poet
Quality
Attention
Dull
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As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
William Matthews / Poet
Quality
Fire
Frost
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The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.
William Matthews / Poet
Book
Easy
Ideas
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God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
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Choices
Coercion
Ideas
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The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.
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Experience
Anxiety
Character
Giving
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With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.
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Contentment
Forever
Longing
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There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.
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Men
Character
Differences
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The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.
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May
Purpose
Titles
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Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.
William Matthews / Poet
Men
Dwarves
Excellence
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One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
William Matthews / Poet
Attention
Energy
Law
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There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.
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Faithful
Luck
Opposites
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Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.
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Business
Mind
Principles
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Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.
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Men
Teacher
Lakes
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Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.
William Matthews / Poet
Journey
Knowledge
Men
Blow
Reading
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Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.
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Dream
Agency
Sight
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
William Matthews / Poet
Art
Men
Pride
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What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.
William Matthews / Poet
Ideas
Reflection
Song
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