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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
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The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
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The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
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Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
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Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, 'I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.'
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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