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The busier we are the more leisure we have.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all: those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly.
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That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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Silence is the one great art of conversation.
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Sincerity has to do with the connect between our words and thoughts, and not between our belief and actions.
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Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Principle is a passion for truth
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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No truly great man ever thought himself so.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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