Chapter 7
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_a.s.sociates_--A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire; not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
--_Diogenes._
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If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
--_Latin._
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Never forget that if you are not interesting your audience, you are fatiguing it.
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BEAUTIFUL.
The beautiful are never desolate, For some one always loves them.
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Beauty of face is but a fleeting dower, A momentary gleam, a short-lived flower, A charm that goes no deeper than the skin; Beauty of mind is firm enthroned within.
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There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
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Beauty with selfishness, is a flower without perfume.
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What is beauty?
'Tis the stainless soul within That outs.h.i.+nes the fairest skin.
--_Sir A. Hunt._
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FRAGILE IS BEAUTY.
Fragile is beauty: with advancing years 'Tis less and less, and, last, it disappears.
Your hair too, fair one, will turn grey and thin; And wrinkles furrow that now rounded skin; Then brace the mind and thus beauty fortify, The mind alone is yours, until you die.
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Beauty without kindness dies unenjoyed and undelighting.
--_Johnson._
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O bed! Delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head!
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Generally men are ready to believe what they desire.
--_Caesar._
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The kindest benefactors have no recollection of the good they do, and are surprised when men thank them for it.
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A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful and more honorable to give than receive.
--_Epicurus._
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There is no benefit so small, that a good man will not magnify it.
--_Seneca._