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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one st

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. – James Matthew Barrie

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Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. – Desiderius Erasmus

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There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. – Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910

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