Richard Deeping

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Who am I?

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A dog afraid to bite the hand that feeds it does not deserve its meal.

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Hope is the refuse of those with a gap between the world they want and they world they have the power to create.

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To be invulnerable to all enemies is to be at a state of peace in state of war.

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True power lies in the ability to enact your will with force.

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To base your resolve on a calendar is to constrain your personal strength based on a feeble system of time measurement.

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To accept death is to lose the sweet delusion of infinity which is the root of all happiness #humancondition

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The greater our ability to imagine infinity, the greater our shock and horror at our finite state #humancondition

[Richard Deeping @RichardDeeping]

A dog afraid to bite the hand that feeds it does not deserve its meal.

[Richard Deeping @RichardDeeping]

To claim immortality by virtue of your significance among mortals is to reveal yourself as a braggart and a fool.

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Distrust of foreigners implies a surfeit of trust in your countrymen.

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Life is a gift which will be destroyed and never regained.

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Tolerance of weakness is the root of all mediocrity.

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Any setback is the evidence of the possibility of setbacks and the inevitability of death.

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Death is what happens to you whether or not you have other plans.

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He who dies last lives later.

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Injury and sickness are physical weakness, but to not see them in yourself as moral weakness is moral weakness.

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No man can represent the will of the people; it is rare even to represent the will of the person.

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"Guilty pleasures" implies weakness. Guilt in the pleasures of the strong is weakness. Indulgence in the pleasures of the weak is weakness.

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The key to health is to not accept any physical weakness.