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believe men facts
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
eye tongue mockery
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
love eye men
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.